[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II,
SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)
Notification No. 40/2017 – Customs
New Delhi, the 30
th
June, 2017
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 exempts goods of the description specified in
column (2) of the Table below and falling within the First Schedule of the Customs Tariff
Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), when imported into India, from the whole of the duty of customs
leviable thereon which is specified in the said First Schedule.
TABLE
Sl.No. Description of Goods
(1) (2)
1. Goods of Bhutanese or Indian origin imported from Bhutan into India.
2. Semi-tanned cow hides, low gran image paper, kapok and handloom products, when
imported into India from Bangladesh.
3. Goat skin, sheep skin horses, goats, sheep, wool, butter, common salt, raw silk, yak
tail, yak hair, china clay, borax, szaibelyite, goat cashmere, Readymade Garments,
Shoes, quilt or blankets, Carpets and Local Herbal Medicines when imported into
India from China through Gunji in Pithoragarh district of Uttaranchal along the
Gunji Pulan (Tibet) land route or through village Namgaya Shipkila in Kinnaur
district of Himachal Pradesh along the Namgaya-Shipkila-Shipki Jui Jiub a land
route or through Sherathang land route between Sherathang in the East Sikkim
district of Sikkim in India and Renqinggang in the Tibet Autonomous Region of
China through Nathula Pass.
2. This notification shall come into force with effect from the 1
st
day of July, 2017.
[F.No.354/119/2017-TRU]
(Gunjan Kumar Verma)
Under Secretary to the Government of India