Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
Notification No. 18/2009-Central Excise
New Delhi, the 7th July, 2009
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section
5A of the
Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) and in supersession of the Government of
India in the
Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) notification No.23/2006- Central
Excise, dated the
1st March 2006, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II
Section 3, Sub-section
(i), vide number G.S.R. 125(E), dated the 1st March , 2006, except as respects
things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central
Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to
do, hereby exempts-
(a) all goods falling under tariff items 2710 11 11, 2710 11 12 and 2710 11 13
of the First
Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986); and
(b) Naphtha falling under heading 2710 of the First Schedule to the Central
Excise Tariff
Act, 1985 (5 of 1986),
from so much of the duty of excise leviable thereon under the First Schedule to
the Central
Excise Tariff Act, as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate of 14
per cent. ad valorem.
[F .No. 334/13/2009-TRU]
(Prashant Kumar)
Under Secretary to the Government of India