Additional Excise Duty on Non Filter Cigarette upto 65mm

09-CE              In exercise of the powers conferred
17.03.2012      by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the
                        Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) read with sub-section (3) of section 85 of the Finance Act, 2005 (18 of 2005), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts goods specified in column (2) of the Table below and falling within the tariff item of the First Schedule to the Central Excise  Tariff Act,1985(5 of 1986),specified in column (1) of the said Table from so much of the additional duty of excise leviable thereon under sub-section(1) of section 85 of the said Finance Act, as is in excess of the amount indicated in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table, namely:-

Table

Tariff items

Description of goods

Rate

(1)

(2)

(3)

2402 20 20

Other than filter cigarettes, of the length not exceeding 65 millimetres.

Rs.70 per thousand

[Table amended by corrigendum/20.03.2012]

[F. No. 334/01/2012-TRU]