Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs, Diagnostics & Equipment exemption extended
CENTRAL Government had exempted goods imported and procured domestically under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) funded by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) from customs and excise duty respectively.
The condition is that the importer/manufacturer, at the time of clearance of the said goods, produces before the jurisdictional Assistant/Deputy Commissioner of Customs/Central Excise, a certificate from an officer not below the rank of Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to the effect that the said goods are required for the RNTCP funded by the GFATM.
The exemption was to be valid till 30th September, 2015. Now they have extended it till 31 st March 2016.