India adjusts duties for 28 US products

On 15 June 2019 the Department of Revenue of the Ministry of Finance of India issued Customs Notification No. 17/2019 which seeks “to further amend notification No. 50/2017-Customs dated 30.06.2017 to implement the imposition of retaliatory duties on 28 specified goods originating in or exported from USA and preserving the existing MFN rate for all these goods for all countries other than USA”. It specifies rates of duty for goods such as those classified under tariff numbers 0802 11 00, 0808 10 00 and 2809 20 10 if they are of US origin.

The notification is available in the Customs Notifications section on the website of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC).

To read the full text of Customs Notification No. 17/2019 in detail, please click here, for the English version, or here, for the version in Hindi. India’s Customs Tariff as on 1 February 2019 is also available on the CBIC website.