GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN

MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

 

NOTIFICATION

Islamabad, the 7th August, 1997

CUSTOMS

                        S.R.O.593(I)/97.-  In exercise of the powers conferred by section 19 of the Customs Act, 1969 (IV of 1969), the Federal Government is pleased to exempt the machinery (not manufactured locally) imported by an engineering unit for export related production from whole of the customs duty as specified in the First Schedule to the said Act, subject to the following conditions, namely:-

                (i)            The exemption shall be limited upto two hundred per cent of the export value during the preceding financial year of the claiment unit;

 

                (ii)           the claiment unit shall apply at the beginning of each financial year, for issuance of a certificate in respect of exports made by  it  in  the preceding financial year, to the Collector of Customs, at the station of export who shall issue the certificate as per form set out below.  The claiment unit shall specify in the application the customs station where from the intended imports are to be           made and the Collector of Customs of the station from where export took place, while issuing the certificate, shall also endorse a copy of the same to the designated customs station;

 

                (iii)          the claiment unit shall be entitled to import the machinery only from the customs station specified by the same and to whom the certificate has been endorsed.  At the time of the import the claiment unit shall declare on the bill of entry the intention of getting       benefit of this notification and shall produce the certificate of export alongwith other documents, in proof of his claim;

 

                (iv)          the Collector of Customs (Imports) to whom the certificate is endorsed or any officer designated by him in this behalf shall maintain an account of the imports made on the basis of the certificate issued in favour of the claiming unit by the Collector of Customs                 at the Customs Station of Export; and

 

                (v)           the claiment unit shall not be entitled to carry forward the balance remaining at the end of a financial year to the next financial year.

 

                Explanation.-         For the purposes of this notification the expression "not manufactured locally" shall mean the goods which are not included in the list  of locally manufactured goods, specified in the General Order, issued by the Central Board of Revenue.

 

FORM

 

1.             Name of the Unit with complete address. ________________________________________________________

 

2.             N.T.N. No.                                              ________________________________________________________

                               

3.             Export Registration No.                           ________________________________________________________

 

4.             Import Registration No.                           ________________________________________________________

 

5.             Name of station of export                                       ________________________________________________________

               

6.             Designated station of import                    ________________________________________________________

 

7.             Details of export in financial year----------:-            ________________________________________________________

 

No. of bill of            Description of          Value in US $                           Value in Pak Rupees                 Bill of lading

export with date       goods exported                                                                                                         No. and date

               

       (1)                            (2)                            (3)                                                (4)                                                   (5)

               

Country of export           Foreign exchange repatriation certificate

                                       No. with the name of the Bank Branch

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           (6)                                                        (7)

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Seal and Signature    

Collector of Customs    

 

 


2.             This Notification shall take effect from the 7th day of August, 1997, and shall remain in force till the 30th day of June, 2001.

 

[C.NO.6(15)/97-CB]

 

                RIAZ AHMAD MALIK

ADDITIONAL SECRETARY

As amended

S.R.O.723(I)/99,               -          dated  12.06.1999

S.R.O.447(I)/2000,          -                       dated  30.06.2000