Budget  (2000 - 2001)
Customs Table

 
S
No.
Chapter
Heading No.
or sub -heading
No.
Description of goods
Standard
duty rate
Additional
duty rate
Condition
No.
284.
85 or any
other
Chapter
The wireless apparatus, accessories and parts 
specified in List 24, imported by a licensed 
amateur radio operator 

5%
 ---
55

 LIST 24 (See S. No. 284 of the Table)


(A) Wireless Apparatus and
accessories -
(1) HF, VHF, or UHF transreceiver 
(combination of transmitter and receiver) meant for amateur 
frequencies with accessories in 
assembled or kit form 
(2) VHF/VHF or VHF/UHF 
Repeater (combination of 
Transmitter and receiver) meant for amateur frequencies with accessories in assembled or kit form 
(3) Transvertor for amateur 
frequencies in assembled or kit form 		 (4) Grid Dip Oscillator, Radio 
Frequency Interference Filter, Balun Transformer, SWR 
bridge or reflectometer, Morse reader or Noise bridge 
(5) Antenna with or without 
feeders/Antenna rotators for amateur frequencies 
(6) Digital Frequency counter (upto 600 MHz) with accessories 

(B) Parts -
(1) Transistors, diodes, integrated circuits/ chips, thermionic valves or  vaccum tubes 
 

 (2) Toroidal cores, quartz crystals, relays, rotatory switches, ferrite beads 
(3) Variable condensers, air-dielectric type 
(4) Precision capacitors (fixed type) value (s) between 1pF to 5000 pF 
(5) Spare nicad cells or pack, as required or used with thermionic valves or vaccum tubes or toroidal cores (in the case of handheld transreceiver) 
(6) Slow motion tuning mechanism with or without dials. 

ANNEXURE


Condition
No
Conditions

 
55.
 If, - 
(a) the total C.I.F. value of the wireless apparatus, accessories and parts, imported under this notification does not exceed seventy-five thousand rupees; 
(b) the total value of the parts imported under this exemption does not exceed Rs.1,000; 
(c) the importer at the time of clearance, produces a certificate from an officer not below the rank of an Assistant Wireless Adviser to the Government of India in the Ministry of Communications to the effect that the wireless apparatus, accessories and parts in respect of which this exemption is claimed are within the value limit specified above, and also recommending the grant of this exemption. 

Explanation.- “Licensed amateur radio operator” means a person duly authorised under the Indian Wireless Telegraphs (Amateur Service) Rules, 1978, made under sections 4 and 7 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885). 

 

 


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