Government announced exemption of customs-duty on agriculture machinery and equipment

Government announced exemption of customs-duty on agriculture machinery and equipment, not manufactured locally 


GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN 

MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS 

Islamabad, the 18th June, 2001 

NOTIFICATION 
(CUSTOMS) 

In exercise of the powers conferred under section 19 of the Customs Act, 1969 (IV of 1969), and in supersession of its Notification No. S.R.O. 64(I)/2001, dated the 29th January 2001, the Federal Government is pleased to direct that agriculture machinery and equipment, not manufactured locally, as specified in the Table below, shall be exempt from the whole of customs-duties leviable thereon under the First Schedule to the said Act, if imported for the purpose of land development and reclamation of barren, desert and hilly land for agriculture purpose and crops farming; reclamation of water front areas or creeks; crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers farming; integrated agriculture (cultivation and processing of crops); modernization and development of irrigation facilities and water management; plantation, forestry and horticulture; dairy; small ruminants (sheep, goat) and all other livestock farming and breeding, 


TABLE 

Category. Equipment. 


(A) Land development, leveling and clearing machinery and equipment. 

(i) Laser land leveling equipment; 

(ii) Hydraulically driven land leveler/land planer; 

(iii)Survey equipment like theodolite; 

(iv) Stone collector wind rower, capacity 1.5-2.5 m; and 

(v) Bulldozer pulled soil scrapper, capacity 20-25m3. 


(B) Tillage and planting equipment. 

(i) Para plow-sub-soiler (with vibratory mechanism); 

(ii) Rotary tiller/weedier (above 90 HP); 

(iii) Flame weedier; 

(iv) Vegetable seedling transplants; and 

(v) Paddy seeding raising equipment. 


(C) Fertilizer, plant protection equipment. 

(i) Slurry Spreaders; 

(ii) Manure spreader/composite shredder; 

(iii) Self propelled sprayers/air assisted sprayers, (excluding manual type sprayers); 

(iv) Power knapsack/mist blower sprayers; 

(v) Herbicides applicators (with working pressure above 40 psi); 

(vi) Granular applicators; 

(vii) Spray nozzles assembly; and 

(viii) Spray pumps (gear and diaphragm type); 


(D) High efficiency irrigation and Drainage equipment. 

(i) Sprinkler including high and low pressure (center pivota) system and conventional sprinkler equipment, water reel travelling sprinkler); 

(ii) Drip/trickle irrigation equipment/mint irrigation sprinkler system; 

(iii) Dredger/excavator/dragline equipment/back hoe trenchers; 

(iv) Tile drain laying equipment; 

(v) Direct power rotary drilling rigs; 

(vi) Tractor mounted rotary ditcher (excluding tractor); and 

(vii) Tractor mounted chain trencher (excluding tractor). 



(E) Harvesting and threshing machinery 

(i) Combine harvesters; 

(ii) Straw balers; 

(iii) Food mowers; 

(iv) Forage choppers; 

(v) Sugarcane harvester; 

(vi) Potato digger/harvester; 

(vii) Cotton picker; 

(viii) Onion and garlic harvester; 

(ix) Stock pullers cum shredder; 

(x) Flail mower; 

(xi) Fodder rakes; 

(xii) Forage wagon; 

(xiii)Fruit Harvesters; 

(xiv) Rotary slusher; and 

(xv) Pruner machinery; 


(F) Post-harvest handling and processing machinery. 

(i) Mobile/stationary seed processing units; 

(ii) Vegetables and fruits cleaning and sorting/grading equipment; and 

(iii) Fodder and feed cube maker equipment. 



(G) Dairy or livestock machinery/Miscellaneous. 

(i) Milking machines; 

(ii) Sheer machinery; 

(iii) Slurry digester; 

(iv) Solar heating equipment; 

(v) Green houses/G.H. equipment; and 

(vi) Veterinary equipment. 


(H) Seeding and planting equipment. 

(i) Potato planter; 

(ii) Rice transplanter; 

(iii) Canola/sunflower drill; and 

(iv) Sugarcane planter. 



(I) Harvesting thrashing and storage equipment. 

(i) Groundnut digger; and 

(ii) Sugar Harvester. 

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