In the Budget for 2016-17, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had proposed to levy a basic customs duty of 10 per cent on charger or adaptor, battery, wired headsets for use in manufacture of mobile handsets including cellular phones.
Another 12.5 per cent countervailing duty was proposed on the same and a 4 per cent Special Additional Duty, totalling the incidence of duties to 29.441 per cent.
Following representation from the industry, Jaitley in reply to the debate on Finance Bill last week announced partial roll back of these duties.
This being subject to "the importer shall comply the procedure specified in the Customs (Import of Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty for Manufacture of Excisable Goods) Rules, 2016," the notification said.
Also Read
CBEC also said 'preform of silica' for use in the manufacture of telecommunication grade optical fibres or optical fibre cables would attract a basic customs duty of 5 per cent.
It also exempted components or parts, including engines of aircraft from customs duty to boost Make-in-India. There was no import duty on these parts previously as well but the CBEC conditioned the exemption to the importer submitting "documents duly certified by the Director General of Civil Aviation approved Quality Managers of aircraft maintenance organisations indicating such parts, testing equipment, tools and tool-kits."