SUPPLIMENTRY NOTES

1. Heading 0901 includes coffee in powder form.
   
   


2. “Spice” means a group of vegetable products (including seeds, etc.), rich in essential oils and aromatic principles, and which, because of their characteristic taste, are mainly used as condiments. These products may be whole or in crushed or powdered form.
   
   


3. The addition of other substances to spices shall not affect their inclusion in spices provided the resulting mixtures retain the essential character of spices and spices also include products commonly known as “masalas”.

ADDITIONAL DUTY OF EXCISE

Note: (1) In the case of goods specified in the Fourth Schedule, being goods
manufactured
in India, there shall be levied and collected for the purposes of the Union, by
surcharge, an additional duty of excise, at the rate specified in the said
Schedule.

2. The additional duty of excise referred to in sub-section (1), shall be in
   addition
   to any other duties of excise chargeable on such goods under the Central Excise
   Act or any other law for the time being in force.
   
   
   
   


3.  The provisions of the Central Excise Act and the rules made thereunder,
   including those relating to refunds and exemptions from duties and imposition of
   penalty, shall, as far as may be, apply in relation to the levy and collection
   of the additional duty of excise leviable under this section in respect of the
   goods specified in the Fourth Schedule
   as they apply in relation to the levy and collection of the duties of excise on
   such goods under that Act or those rules, as the case may be.

EXEMPTION NOTIFICATIONS



Exemption to tea & tea waste from whole of the Additional duty of excise
leviable under sub-section (1) of Section 157 of the Finance Act, 2003.



In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the
Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) read with sub-section (3) of section 157 of
the Finance Act, 2003 (32 of 2003), the Central Government, being satisfied that
it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts tea and tea
waste from the whole of the additional duty of excise leviable under sub-section
(1) of section 157 of the said Finance Act.



[Ntfn No. 7/05-CE, dated 1.3.2005]