Now, No Basic Customs Duty (BCD) and Health Cess ,you can import Ventilators, Face masks , surgical Masks and Personal protection equipment (PPE) into India without paying BCD & Health Cess.
http://cbic.gov.in/resources//htdocs-cbec/customs/cs-act/notifications/notfns-2020/cs-tarr2020/cs17-2020.pdf;jsessionid=A44C5F7123CAF89EF385E6CA4FE23993
[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. 20/2020– Customs
New Delhi dated the 9
th April, 2020
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) read with section 141 of Finance Act, 2020 (12 of 2020), the Central
Government on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the
goods of the description specified in column (3) of the Table below falling within the Chapter,
heading, sub-heading or tariff item of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act specified in
column (2) of the Table below, from whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon under the First
Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act and the whole of health cess leviable thereon under section
141 the said of Finance Act, 2020:
Table
2. This notification shall remain in force upto and inclusive of the 30th September, 2020.
[F.No. 354/41/2020-TRU]
(Gaurav Singh)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
S.No
.
Chapter or
Heading or
sub–heading
or tariff item
Description of goods
(1) (2) (3)
1. 9018 or 9019 Artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus (Ventilators)
2. 63 or any
chapter
Face masks and surgical Masks
3. 62 or any
chapter
Personal protection equipment (PPE)
4. 30, 38 or any
chapter
Covid-19 testing kits
5. Any Chapter Inputs for manufacture of items at S. Nos. 1 to 4 above,subject to the condition
that the importer follows the procedure set out in the Customs (Import of
Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty) Rules, 2017.
http://cbic.gov.in/resources//htdocs-cbec/customs/cs-act/notifications/notfns-2020/cs-tarr2020/cs17-2020.pdf;jsessionid=A44C5F7123CAF89EF385E6CA4FE23993
[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. 20/2020– Customs
New Delhi dated the 9
th April, 2020
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) read with section 141 of Finance Act, 2020 (12 of 2020), the Central
Government on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the
goods of the description specified in column (3) of the Table below falling within the Chapter,
heading, sub-heading or tariff item of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act specified in
column (2) of the Table below, from whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon under the First
Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act and the whole of health cess leviable thereon under section
141 the said of Finance Act, 2020:
Table
2. This notification shall remain in force upto and inclusive of the 30th September, 2020.
[F.No. 354/41/2020-TRU]
(Gaurav Singh)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
S.No
.
Chapter or
Heading or
sub–heading
or tariff item
Description of goods
(1) (2) (3)
1. 9018 or 9019 Artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus (Ventilators)
2. 63 or any
chapter
Face masks and surgical Masks
3. 62 or any
chapter
Personal protection equipment (PPE)
4. 30, 38 or any
chapter
Covid-19 testing kits
5. Any Chapter Inputs for manufacture of items at S. Nos. 1 to 4 above,subject to the condition
that the importer follows the procedure set out in the Customs (Import of
Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty) Rules, 2017.
