Pakistan notifies 2.0 percent additional customs duty

KARACHI: The Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Revenue vide SRO 630(I)/2018 has imposed additional customs duty at the rate of 2.0 percent on import of goods specified in the First Schedule of the Customs Act, 1969.

However, following goods remain exempted from this 2.0 percent additional customs duty:

import of seeds and spores for sowing (PCT 0904.2120, 1006.1010, 1209.0000);

import under Chapter 31 of First Schedule of the Customs Act,1969 (IV of 1969);

• import of goods classifiable under PCT codes, 5503.1100, 5503.1900, 5503.3000, 5503.4000, 5503.9000, 5504.1000, 5504.9000, 5506.1000, 5506.3000, 5506.4000, 5506.9000 and 5507.0000;

1. plant and machinery used in manufacture or production of goods as is classifiable under Chapter 84 and 85 of the First Schedule to the Customs Act, 1969 (IV of 1969);
2. import under PCTs 8517.1211 and 8517.1219
3. import under Chapter 99 of First Schedule of the Customs Act, 1969 (IV of 1969);

• import under Fifth Schedule to the Customs Act, 1969 (IV of 1969) excluding a) Serial Numbers 30, 32 and 33 of table of Part-I, b) Serial numbers, 20 to 28, 30, 60, 96, 102, 108 to 110 of Table of Part III; and c) Sr. No. 29 to 51, 66 to 85, 109 to 115, 117 to 126, 128 to 155 and 157 to 169 of Table A and Sr. No. 4 to 9, 11 to 14, 19 to 21of Table B of Part VII
• import under the Baggage Rules, 2006;

1. import under sub-chapters 3 and 7 of chapter XII and chapter XV of Customs Rules, 2001;
2. import under Notification No.SR0.577(1)/2005 dated 6th June,2005;
3. import under Notification No.SR0.565(1)/2006 dated 5th June, 2006;

• import under Notification No.SR0.693(1)/2006 dated 1st July, 2006;
• import under Small and Medium Enterprises and Export Oriented Units Rules, 2008;
• import under temporary importation scheme vide S.R.O. 492(1)/2009, dated the 13th June, 2009.