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Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
Notification No. 1/2015-Customs (SG)
New Delhi, the 13th March, 2015
G.S.R. (E). - Whereas, in the matter of import of “Saturated Fatty Alcohols
with carbon chain length of C8,C10,C12,C14,C16 and C18 including single, blends
and unblended (not including branched isomers) which includes blends of a combination of carbon
chain lengths, C12-C14, C12-C16, C12-C18, C16-18 and C14-C16 (commonly
categorized as C12-C14)” (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling
under tariff item 2905 17 00 or sub-heading 3823 70 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 preliminary findings,
published vide number G.S.R. 357 (E), dated the 26th May, 2014, in the Gazette
of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), dated the 26th
May, 2014, had come to the conclusion that increased imports of subject goods
into India has caused and threatened to cause further serious injury to the
domestic producers of subject goods, thereby necessitating the imposition of
provisional safeguard duty on imports of the subject goods into India;
And, whereas, on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the Director General
(Safeguard), the Central Government had imposed provisional safeguard duty on
import of the subject goods into India for a period of two hundred days from
28th August, 2014 vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry
of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 03/2014-Customs (SG), dated the 28th
August, 2014, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section
3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 623(E), dated the 28th August, 2014;
And, whereas, the Director General (Safeguard) in its final findings vide
number G.S.R. 712(E), dated the 9th October, 2014, published in the Gazette of
India, Extraordinary, Part II,
Section 3, Sub-section (i), has recommended imposition of safeguard duty on
subject goods excluding Saturated Fatty Alcohols with carbon chain length of
pure C8, falling under tariff item 2905 17 00 or sub-heading 3823 70 of the
First Schedule of the Customs Tariff Act, for a period of two years and six
months from the date of levy of provisional safeguard duty;
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 said final findings of the Director
General (Safeguard), hereby imposes on subject goods excluding Saturated Fatty
Alcohols with carbon chain length of pure C8, falling under tariff item 2905 17
00 or sub-heading 3823 70 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, when
imported into India, a safeguard duty at the following rate, namely:-
(a) twenty per cent. ad valorem when imported during the period from 28th
August, 2014 to 27th August, 2015 (both days inclusive);
(b) eighteen per cent. ad valorem, when imported during the period from 28th
August, 2015 to 27th August, 2016 (both days inclusive); and
(c) twelve per cent. ad valorem, when imported during the period from 28th
August, 2016 to 27th February, 2017 (both days inclusive).
2. Nothing contained in this notification shall apply to imports of subject
goods excluding Saturated Fatty Alcohols with carbon chain length of pure C8,
from countries notified as
developing countries under clause (a) of sub-section (6) of section 8B of the
Customs Tariff Act, other than Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.
3. The safeguard duty imposed under this notification shall be levied with
the effect from the date of the imposition of provisional safeguard duty, that
is, the 28th August, 2014, and shall be payable in Indian currency.
[F No. 354/108/2014-TRU]
(Akshay Joshi)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
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