Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
Notification No. 90/2009-Customs
New Delhi, dated the 7th September, 2009
G.S.R. 644 (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of
section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being
satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts
all goods imported from Antarctica into India from the whole of the duty of
customs leviable thereon which is specified in the First Schedule to the Customs
Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and from the whole of the additional duties
leviable thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act , provided that
a certificate from an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary in the
Department of Ocean Development in the Ministry of Earth Sciences is produced in
each case by the importer to the jurisdictional Assistant Commissioner or Deputy
Commissioner of Customs at the time of importation, to the effect that such
goods have been used for or are related to the Indian Antarctic Expedition or
the Indian Polar Science Programme.
[F.No.354/146/ 2009-TRU]
(Prashant Kumar)
Under Secretary to the Government of India