NOTIFICATION                       New Delhi, dated the 23rd July,1996
No.18/96-CENTRAL EXCISES           1 Shravana, 1918 (Saka)
						
					
G.S.R.           (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) 
of  section  5A of the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 (1 of  1944),  read 
with  sub-section  (3)  of  section 3 of the  Additional  Duties  of   Excise 
(Textiles and Textile Articles) Act, 1978 (40 of 1978) and in supersession of 
the  notification  of  the Government of India in  the  Ministry  of  Finance 
(Department  of   Revenue) No.49/95-Central Excises, dated  the  16th  March, 
1995,  the  Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary  in  the 
public interest so to do, hereby exempts goods specified in column (3) of the 
Table hereto annexed and falling within heading No. or sub-heading No. of the 
Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986), as specified  in 
the  corresponding entry in column (2) of the said Table, from the  whole  of 
the additional duty of excise leviable thereon under the Additional Duties of 
Excise  (Textiles  and Textile Articles) Act, 1978.

    				TABLE

S. No.	  Heading No. or           Description
          sub-heading No.
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(1)	(2)	                        (3)
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1.	50.04	                   Silk yarn and yarn spun from silk waste

2.	5105.30 or 5105.40	   All goods

3.	5108.00 or 5109.00	   All goods

4.	 51.10,  51.11 or 51.12	   Woven fabrics of fine or  coarse  animal 
                                   hair or of horse hair

5.	58.04	                   All goods

6.	52.07, 52.08, 52.09,       All goods 
        54.06, 54.07, 55.11,
        55.12, 55.13 or  55.14

7.	58.02	                   All goods

8.	60.01 or  60.02            All goods




						(TARUN KUMAR GOVIL)
					UNDER SECRETARY TO THE GOVT. OF INDIA