01/2023-Customs : seeks to exempt COVID -19 vaccines from basic Custom duty till 31st March, 2023

[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. 01 /2023–Customs

New Delhi, the $13^{\text{th}}$ January, 2023

G.S.R. (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, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the goods of the description specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling within the Chapter, heading, sub–heading or tariff item of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) specified in column (2) of the said Table, when imported into India by Central Government or State Governments, from the whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon under the said First Schedule, namely:-

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2. This notification shall come into force on $14^{\text{th}}$ January, 2023 and remain in force upto and inclusive of the $31^{\text{st}}$ March, 2023.

[F.No. CBIC-190354/66/2021-TO(TRU-I)-CBEC]

(Nitish Karnatak) Under Secretary to the Government of India