Notification New Delhi, the 1st March 2006.
No.10/2006-Central Excise 10 Phalguna, 1927 (Saka)
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise
Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so
to do and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue), No. 10/2003-Central Excise dated the 1
st
March, 2003 [G.S.R 140(E), dated the
1
st
March, 2003], except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, hereby
exempts excisable goods of the description specified in column (3) of the Table below and falling within
the Chapter, heading, sub-heading or the tariff item of the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act,
1985 (5 of 1986) (hereinafter referred to as the Central Excise Tariff Act), specified in the corresponding
entry in column (2) of the said Table (hereinafter referred to as the said goods), from so much of the duty
of excise leviable thereon under the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, as is in excess of the
amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of the said Table.
Explanation I.-For the removal of doubts, it is clarified that a manufacturer who has availed of full
exemption under notification No.8/2003-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2003, published in the
Gazette of India vide number G.S.R. 129 (E), as the case may be, in any financial year, is permitted to
avail this exemption in the same financial year.
Explanation II..-For the purposes of this notification the “retail sale price” means the maximum price at
which the excisable goods in packaged form may be sold to the ultimate consumer and includes all
taxes, local or otherwise, freight, transport charges, commission payable to dealers and all charges
towards advertisement, delivery, packing, forwarding and the like, as the case may be, and the price is the
sole consideration for such sale.
Explanation III .-For the purposes of this notification, the rates specified in column (4) of the said Table are
ad valorem rates, unless otherwise specified.
TABLE
S.
No.
Chapter or
heading or
sub-heading or
tariff item
Description of goods Rate under
the First
Schedule
(1) (2) (3) (4)
1. 44 Articles of wood, other than articles of densified wood and
flush doors
8%
2. 4820 All goods, other than notebooks and exercise books 8%
3. 4821 All goods 8%
4. 4823 70 10 All goods 8%
5. 5906 10 00 All goods Nil
6. 5908 Tubular knitted gas mantle fabric, whether or not impregnated,
for use in incandescent gas mantles
Nil
7. 6602 00 00 All goods Nil
8. 6814 Articles of mica 8%
9. 68 (except
headings 6804,
6805, 6811,
6812, 6813)
Solid or hollow building blocks, including aerated or cellular
light weight concrete blocks and slabs
8%
10. 7015 10 Glasses for corrective spectacles and flint buttons Nil
(1) (2) (3) (4)
11. 7323 All goods other than parts and pressure cookers Nil
12. 7326 20 10 All goods Nil
13. 7418 Table, kitchen or other household articles (other than parts) Nil
14. 7615 11 00,
7615 19
Table, kitchen or other household articles, pot scourers and
scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like (other than parts
and pressure cookers falling under tariff item 7615 19 10)
Nil
15. 8211 or 8214 Knives Nil
16. 8215 All goods Nil
17. 8413 Power driven pumps primarily designed for handling water,
namely, centrifugal pumps (horizontal or vertical), deep tube-
well turbine pumps, submersible pumps, axial flow and mixed
flow vertical pumps
8%
18. 8413 Hand pumps and parts thereof Nil
19. 8414 20 10,
8414 20 20, or
8414 90 12
All goods Nil
20. 8481 80 41 or
8481 90 10
All goods Nil
21. 8483 10 10 All goods 8%
22. 8524 Audio cassettes Nil
23. 8539 Vacuum and gas filled bulbs of retail sale price not exceeding
Rs. 20 per bulb
8%
24. 8712 All goods Nil
25. 8714 Parts and accessories of vehicle of heading 8712 Nil
26. 90 or any other
Chapter
Medical equipment and other goods (other than parts and
accessories thereof) specified in List 1 annexed to this
notification
Explanation.- For the purposes of this exemption the items in
the list above shall not include Foley Balloon Catheters.
8%
27. 9004 Sunglasses for correcting vision and goggles 8%
28. 9018 All goods (other than parts and accessories thereof) 8%
29. 9019 All goods (other than parts and accessories thereof) 8%
30. 9022 All goods for medical, surgical, dental and veterinary use
(other than parts and accessories thereof)
8%
31. 9405 50 31 Kerosene pressure lantern Nil
32. 9501 All goods (other than parts and accessories thereof) Nil
33. 9502 All goods (other than parts and accessories thereof) Nil
34. 9503 All goods (other than parts and accessories thereof) Nil
35. 9603 21 00 Toothbrushes 8%
36. Any Chapter Waste and scrap arising during the course of manufacture of
the goods specified against S. No.1 to 35 above (except
S.No.18, 23, 27 and 35)
Nil
LIST 1 (See S. No. 26 of the Table)
(1) C.A.M. stimulator
(2) Contact lens lathe
(3) Contact lens polishing machine
(4) Contact lens thickness measuring gauge
(5) Corneal Anesthesiometer
(6) Cryo-lathe
(7) Dark adaptometer
(8) Exophthalmometer
(9) Glare testing equipment
(10) Ophthalmic cryo equipment
(11) Ophthalmic operating lights and fibre optic lights
(12) Ophthalmo dynamometer
(13) Pantoscope
(14) Projection magnifier for contact lens inspection and verification
(15) Radiuscope base curve (for measurement of contact lenses)
(16) Refractometer
(17) Roper Hall foreign body locator
(18) Softometer for measurement of the base curve of soft contact lens
(19) Stereozoom microscope for inspection of contact lens
(20) Ultrasonography A.B.M. scan/ pacchymeter/cleaner
(21) Linear accelerator.
[F.No.334/3/2006-TRU]
(Ajay)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
