Government of India
Ministry of Finance,
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs
North Block, New Delhi
To,
All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs/Customs (Preventive),
All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Tax
All Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of Customs/ Customs (Preventive)
All Principal Directors General/Directors General, under CBIC
Subject: Telecom equipment in the context of notification No. 02/2019- Customs dated 29-01-2019 amending notification No. 57/2017-Customs dated 30.06.3017 - reg
Attention of the field formations is invited to Notification No. 57/2017- Customs dated 30.06.2017 amended by Notification No. 02/2019-Customs dated 29.01.2019 which, against tariff items 8517 62 90 and 8517 69 90, gives descriptions of certain goods that are telecommunication products or equipment.
2. In this context, the Board was apprised that some of these technology related descriptions, specifically those at (b) to (h), amongst (a) to (h), in the notification, need to be better understood by all stakeholders for a more effective identification of products and equipment covered therein.
3. Accordingly, in order to make stakeholders more aware in the matter, and in consultation with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) -
(a) the identification of products/equipment covered thereunder, at (b) to (h) of the notification, is illustrated in Annexure -1;
(b) it is decided that, in terms of the Bill of Entry (Electronic Integrated Declaration and Paperless Processing) Regulations 2018, an identification of products/equipment under 85176290 and 85176990 shall be enabled from the beginning, that is, from the time of filing of import declarations itself, bringing certainty, for which an alpha numeric code/identifier as provided for in Annexure -2 will need to be additionally declared in bill of entry by the importer with effect from 01.04.2023.
4. Suitable Public Notice, etc may kindly be issued for guidance. Difficulty faced, if any, in implementation may be intimated. The Hindi version follows.
Encl: Annexure -1, 2 & abbreviations list
Varun Koundinya
OSD-Tariff Unit
email: tariffunit-rev@nic.in
Tel:23095557
Annexure -1
i. OTN equipment;
ii. Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer (DWDM);
iii. Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexer (CWDM);
iv. Elements of (i), (ii) or (iii) above: ROADM, Booster Amplifiers, Pre-Amplifiers, Inline Amplifiers, Raman Amplifiers, Mux-demux, Transponders, Mux-ponders, OADM and Regenerators, Optical Power Monitoring and Optical Line Protection equipment.
i. Optical Line Terminal (OLT) for FTTX (GPON/ EPON/ XGSPON/ 10GEPON/ NG-PON2 / 25GPON / 50GPON etc.);
ii. Optical Network Terminal (ONT) for FTTX (GPON/ EPON/ XGSPON/ 10GEPON/ NG-PON2 / 25GPON / 50GPON etc.).
i. Wi-Fi Access Point Equipment and Wi-Fi Controller ;
ii. Repeaters (RF/RF-over-Optical) & In-Building Solution (IBS)- Indoor/Outdoor including active and passive Accessories (2G/3G/ 4G/5G and onwards);
iii. Wireless Radio Link - (IP/Hybrid) equipment.
i. Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange (IP PBX);
ii. IP Multimedia Systems (IMS);
iii. Unified communication systems (UCS).
i. IP-MPLS Based equipment;
ii. MPLS-TP based equipment;
iii. SDN Based MPLS equipment;
iv. PTN products for Carrier Ethernet Network (CEN) for Access and Aggregation Network Applications
i. 4G(LTE) products and their Elements, namely- eNode B, RRH, CU, DU, RU, BBU, EPC, MME, SGW, PGW, HSS, IMS, Network In a Box (NIB), 4G CPE, etc.;
ii. 5G products and its Elements, namely- gNodeB, RRH, CU, DU, RU, BBU, 5GC, IMS, Network In a Box (NIB), 5G CPE, etc.;
iii. 4G and 5G enabled NB IoT devices; iv. Equipment incorporating technologies beyond 5G.
Annexure -2
Abbreviations
Abbreviations used are listed below: