Coffee, Black Tea, Pepper and Palm oil import from Philippines under ASEAN FTA – Duty Cut by 1 to 4 percent w.e.f. from 1 Jan 2022

[Notification No. 54/2021 – Customs dated 24 December 2021]

Seeks to further amend notification No. 46/2011-Customs dated 01-06-2011 to give effect to 13th tranche of preferential tariff as per ASEAN India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIGA)

G.S.R. ….(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.46/2011-Customs, dated the 1st June, 2011, published in the official Gazette, vide number G.S.R. 423 (E), dated the 1st June, 2011, namely:-

In the said notification, in the Table, -

(i) against serial number 80, for the entry in column (5), the entry “48.0” shall be substituted;

(ii) against serial number 81, for the entry in column (5), the entry “48.0” shall be substituted;

(iii) (iii) against serial number 83, for the entry in column (5), the entry “51.0” shall be substituted;

(iv) against serial number 124, for the entry in column (5), the entry “41.0” shall be substituted; and

(v) against serial number 125, for the entry in column (5), the entry “51.0” shall be substituted.

2. This notification shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of January, 2022.

[F. No. 190354/285/2021-TRU]