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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.
04/2014-Customs (SG)
New
Delhi, the 31st December, 2014
G.S.R. (E). – Whereas, in the matter of import of
Sodium Citrate (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under
tariff item 2918 15 20 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975
(51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the Customs Tariff Act), the Director
General (Safeguard), in his final findings, published vide number G.S.R.
663 (E), dated the 16th
September, 2014, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,
Sub-section (i), has come to the conclusion that increased imports of Sodium
Citrate into India has caused and threatened to cause further serious injury to
the domestic producers of Sodium Citrate, necessitating the imposition of
safeguard duty on imports of Sodium Citrate into India, and accordingly has
recommended the imposition of safeguard duty on imports of the subject goods
into India.
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred
by sub-section (1) of section 8B of the Customs Tariff Act, read with rules 12,
14 and 17 of the Customs Tariff (Identification and Assessment of Safeguard
Duty) Rules, 1997, the Central Government after considering the aforesaid
findings of the Director General (Safeguards), hereby imposes on Sodium Citrate
falling under tariff item 2918 15 20 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff
Act, when imported into India, a safeguard duty at the following rate, namely:-
(a)
thirty per cent. ad valorem when
imported during the period from 31st December, 2014 to 30th December, 2015
(both days inclusive);
(b)
twenty per cent. ad valorem, when
imported during the period from 31st December, 2015 to 30th December, 2016
(both days inclusive); and
(c)
ten per cent. ad valorem, when
imported during the period from 31st December, 2016 to 30th December, 2017
(both days inclusive).
2. Nothing contained in this notification shall
apply to imports of Sodium Citrate from countries notified as developing
countries under clause (a) of sub-section (6) of section 8B of the
Customs
Tariff Act, other than the People’s Republic of China.
[F.No.354/229/2014-TRU]
(Akshay Joshi) Under Secretary to the Government of
India
