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SME Times News Bureau | 02 Feb, 2017
The udget for 2017-18 proposes
to reduce customs duty on inputsAand raw materials to reduce costs, said
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday.
Presenting the
budget proposals, he said the Basic Customs Duty on liqufied natural
gas would be reduced to 2.5 per cent from 5 per cent, on medium quality
terphthalic acid (MTA) and qualified terephathalic acid (QTA) to 5 per
cent from 7.5 percent.
The BCD on nickel will be zero as against
2. 5 per cent and on vegetable tanning extracts like wattle and
myrobalan fruit to 5 per cent from 7.5 per cent.
Under capital
goods, ball screws, linear motion guides and CNC systems, the BCD will
be reduced to 2. 5 per cent from 7.5 per cent and 10 per cent.
"In
the renewable energy sector, BCD on all machinery items for fuel cell
based power generating systems will be 5 per cent as against 10-7.5 per
cent and countervailing duty (CVD) 6 per cent as against 12.5 per cent,"
he announced.
Similarly, BCD on all machinery items for balance
of systems operating on biogas, bio-methane, by-product hydrogen will be
5 per cent as against 10-7.5 per cent and CVD 6 per cent against 12.5
per cent.
"To protect the domestic industry, I propose to
increase BCD on cashew nut, roasted and salted to 45 per cent from 30
per cent in food processing," said Jaitley.
Similarly, Special
Additional Duty on Populated Printed Circuit Boards for use in the
manufacture of mobile phones will be 2 per cent as against zero.
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