Preferential rates of duty of specified goods imported from Bangladesh, Korea or Sri Lanka under Bangkok Agreement.
16-3-1995
Notification No. 26/95-Customs
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central
Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts goods falling within the First
Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), and specified, -
(a) in column (2) against S. No. (I) of the Table hereto annexed when imported into India from Bangladesh, Republic of Korea
or Sri Lanka, which has ratified the Bangkok Agreement; or
(b) in column (2) against S. No. (II) of the said Table when imported into India from Bangladesh which has ratified the Bangkok
Agreement,
from so much of that portion of the duty of customs leviable thereon which is specified in the said First Schedule as is in excess
of the amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table:
Provided that the importer proves to the satisfaction of the Assistant Commissioner of Customs or Deputy Commissioner of
Customs that the goods in respect of which the benefit of exemption under this notification is claimed, comply with the
requirements specified in the Customs Tariff (Determination of Origin of Goods under the Bangkok Agreement) Rules, 1976,
published with the notification of the Government of India in the Department of Revenue and Banking (Revenue Wing) No. 430-
Customs, dated the 1st November, 1976.
Explanation. - In this notification, "Bangkok Agreement" means the First Agreement of Trade Negotiations among Developing
Member Countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Table
S.No. Description of goods Rate
(1) (2) (3)
The following goods :-
1. Fish and crustaceans, fish fillets and other fish meat, flours or meals or pellets of fish and crustaceans, fit for
human consumption falling under heading Nos. 03.01 to 03.06
1. Dessicated coconut falling under heading No. 0801.11
2. Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems) falling under heading No. 09.07
3. Nutmeg falling under sub-heading 0908.10
4. Mace falling under sub-heading No. 0908.20
5. Coconut (copra) oil (refined) falling under sub-heading No. 1513.19
6. Glycerine (crude) falling under sub-heading No. 1520.00
7. Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar falling under heading No. 17.03
8. Cocoa beans (whole or broken, raw or roasted) falling under heading No. 18.01
9. Natural graphite falling under heading No. 25.04
10. Fluorspar falling under sub-heading Nos. 2529.21 or 2529.22
Nil
30%
adv.
20%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
55%
adv.
10%
adv.
10%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
25%
adv
10%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
(I)
11. Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon not elsewhere specified or included) falling under
heading No. 28.03
12. Glycerol falling under sub-heading No. 2905.45
13. Citronella oil, cinnamon bark oil, cinnamon leaf oil or nutmeg oil falling under sub-heading No. 3301.29
14. Papain pure falling under sub-heading No. 3507.90
15. Activated carbon falling under sub-heading No. 3802.10
16. Oleic acid falling under sub-heading No. 3823.12
17. Tall oil fatty acids falling under sub-heading No. 3823.13
18. Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids and acid oils from refining (excluding stearic acid, oleic acid and tall
oil fatty acids) falling under sub-heading No. 3823.19
19. Industrial fatty alcohols falling under sub-heading No. 3823.70
20A All goods falling under sub-heading 4001.10
20. Natural rubber (in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip) falling under sub-heading Nos.
4001.21,4001.22 or 4001.29
21. New pneumatic tyres falling under heading No. 40.11
22. Inner tubes falling under heading No. 40.13
23. Rubber mats (other than of a kind used in motor vehicles) falling under sub-heading No. 4016.91
24. Rubber rings falling under sub-heading No. 4016.99
25. Paper and paperboard of a kind used as a base for photo-sensitive, heat-sensitive or electro-sensitive
paper or paperboard falling under sub-heading No. 4802.20
26. Carbonising base paper falling under sub-heading No. 4802.03
27. Wall paper base falling under sub-heading No. 4802.40
28. Uncoated paper and paperboard of a kind used for printing and weighing less than 40 g/sq.m., falling
under sub-heading No. 4802.54
29. Uncoated paper and paperboard of a kind used for printing and weighing more than 150 g/sq.m., falling
under sub-heading No. 4802.58
30. Uncoated paper and paperboard (in rolls or sheets) falling under heading No. 48.05
31. Silk worm cocoons suitable for reeling falling under heading No. 50.01
32. Carded wool falling under sub-heading No. 5105.10
33. Combed wool in fragments falling under sub-heading No. 5105.21 .
34. Fine animal hair (carded or combed) falling under sub-heading No. 5105.31 or 5105.39
35. Coarse animal hair (carded or combed) falling under sub-heading 5105.40
36. Gypsum plaster board falling under sub-heading Nos. 6809.11 or 6809.19
37. Ceramic tiles falling under heading Nos. 69.07 or 69.08
38. Ferro-silicon falling under sub-heading Nos. 7202.21 or 7202.29
39. GI/MS pipes (seamless tubes) falling under heading No. 73.04
40. Sawing, grinding or polishing machines falling under sub-heading Nos. 8464.10 or 8464.20
41. Transformers (other than liquid dielectric transformers) falling under sub-heading Nos. 8504.31,
8504.32,8504.33 or 8504.34
42. Parts of transformers (other than liquid dielectric transformers) having a power handling capacity
exceeding 16kVA falling under sub-heading No. 8504.90
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
40 %
adv.
15%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
25%
adv.
15%
adv.
15%
adv.
15%
adv.
15%
adv.
25%
adv.
15%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
43. Furnaces functioning by induction falling under sub-heading No. 8514.20
44. Non-electrically heated hand-soldering irons and brazing guns falling under sub-heading No. 8515.11
45. Machines and apparatus for resistance welding of metal falling under sub-heading Nos. 8515.21 or
8515.29
46. Television camera tubes falling under sub-heading No. 8540.20
47. Data or graphic display tubes (colour, with a phosphor dot screen pitch smaller than 0.4 mm) falling under
sub-heading No. 8540.40
48. Data/graphic display tubes (black and white or other monochrome) falling under sub-heading No. 8540.50
49. Other cathode ray tubes falling under sub-heading No. 8540.60
50. Magnetrons falling under sub-heading No. 8540.71
51. Klystrons falling under sub-heading No. 8540.72
52. Receiver or amplifier valves and tubes falling under sub-heading No. 8540.81
53. Parts of railway or tramway locomotives or rolling stock falling under sub-heading Nos. 8607.11, 8607.12,
8607.21,8607.29,8607.30, 8607.91 or 8607.99
54. Parts of railway or tramway locomotives or rolling stock falling under sub-heading No. 8607.19
55. Toys (other than wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children, dolls" carriages, dolls representing
human beings and parts and accessories of such dolls), reduced-size (scale) models and similar
recreational models (working or not) and puzzles of all kinds falling under heading No. 95.03
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
20%
adv.
25%
adv.
20%
adv.
NIL
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
25%
adv.
20%
adv.
15%
adv
II
The following goods :-
1. Dried fish (whether or not salted but not smoked) falling under sub- heading No. 0305.51 or 0305.59
2. Leather of bovine or equine animals (without hair on) falling under heading No. 41.04 and 41.07 (except
whole bovine skin leather of a unit surface area not exceeding 28 sq.ft (2.6 sq.mts) ; other bovine leather,
vegetable pre-tand ; or other bovine leather and equine leather, parchment dressed or prepared after
tanning (other than full grains and full grains splits ))
3. Goat or kid skin leather (without hair on) falling under heading No. 4106.20 or 4113.10 (except otherwise
pre-tanned or parchment dressed or prepared after tanning )
4. Composition leather falling under sub-heading No. 4115.10
5. Timber falling within Chapter 44
6. Jute or bamboo pulp falling under heading Nos. 47.03or47.04
7. Newsprint falling within Chapter 48, of the following type, namely, uncoated paper of a kind used for the
printing of newspapers of which not less than 65% by weight of the total fibre content consists of wood
fibres, obtained by a mechanical process, unsized or very lightly sized, having a smoothness on each side
not exceeding 200 seconds Bekk, weighing not less than 40 g/sq.m. and not more than 57 g/sq.m and
having an ash content by weight not exceeding 8%
8. Printing paper, having a substance by weight of 25 g/sq.m. and above but not exceeding 180 g/sq.m.
falling under sub-heading Nos. 4802.54, 4802.55 , 4802.56, 4802.57 or 4802.58
9. Hand-woven Jamdani sarees falling under heading Nos. 50.07,52.08 or 52.09, Jamdani dupattas
Jamdani kamiz or fabrics made of Jamdani cloth
10. Carpets wholly made out of jute falling under
sub-heading Nos. 5701.90 or 5703.90
Nil
15% ad
valorem
15%
adv.
15%
adv.
15%
adv.
5% adv.
5% ad
valorem
15% ad
valorem
Nil
25% ad
valorem
Notification No. 26/95-Cus., dated 16-3-1995 as amended by Notifications No. 101/95-Cus., dated 26-5-1995; No.120/95-
Cus.,
dated 12-7-1995; No. 175/95-Cus., dated 29-12-1995; No. 44/96-Cus., dated 23-7-1996; No. 16/97-Cus., dated 1-3-1997;
No. 28/98-Cus., dated 2-6-1998 ,No. 27/99-Cus., dated 28-2-1999, No. 20/2001-Cus, dated 01-03-2001, No.135/2001 dated
31.12.2001 and No.24/2002 dated 01.03.2002..
