[TO 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. 8/2026-Central Excise
New Delhi, the 26th March, 2026

G.S.R...(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944
(1 of 1944) read with section 147 of the Finance Act, 2002 (20 of 2002), the Central Government, on
being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the excisable goods of
the description specified in column (3) of the Table below, and falling within the Chapter or heading or
sub-heading or tariff item of the Fourth Schedule to the said Central Excise Act as specified in the
corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, from so much of the Special Additional Excise
Duty leviable thereon under section 147 read with the Eighth Schedule to the said Finance Act, 2002,
as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate specified in the corresponding entry in column (4) of
the said Table:

TABLE

2. This notification shall come into force with immediate effect.

[F. No. 190349/13/2026-TRU]
(Dheeraj Sharma)
Under Secretary to the Government of India