Wide range of textile machinery, equipment: import duty relief granted

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has granted exemption of customs duty on import of a wide range of textile machinery and equipment including machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting manmade textile materials and textile winding (including weft-winding) or reeling machines.
Explaining SRO 809(I)/2009 of September 19, 2009, sources told Business Recorder here on Sunday that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has abolished duty on various headings of Pakistan Customs Tariff (PCT). The FBR has not amended any previous SRO, but issued a fresh notification in this regard.
According to FBR estimates, the government would suffer revenue loss of approximately Rs 2 billion following exemption of customs duty on the import of textile machinery and equipment falling under the PCT headings specified in the notification.
The exemption of customs duty would be applicable on import of machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics and machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning, doubling or twisting machines and other machinery for producing textile yarns; textile reeling or winding (including weft-winding) machines and machines for preparing textile yarns for use on the machines of heading 84.46 or 84.47 of PCT.
Textile industry can enjoy duty exemption on import of machines for preparing textile fibres including carding machines, combing machines, drawing or roving machines, blow room machinery, textile spinning machines, textile doubling or twisting machines, textile winding (including weft-winding) or reeling, machines weft winding machines, cone/bobbin winding machines, reeling machines, weaving machines (looms) for weaving fabrics of a width not exceeding 30cm 15 and for weaving fabrics of a width exceeding 30 cm, shuttle type of power looms and others and for weaving fabrics of a width exceeding 30 cm, shuttleless type.
The exemption of customs duty would be applicable on import of knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting. It also covers circular knitting machines with cylinder diameter not exceeding 165 mm, with cylinder diameter exceeding 165 mm, flat knitting machines; stitch-bonding machines, multi-head embroidery machines, auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading 84.44, 84.45, 84.46 or 84.47 (for example, dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanisms); parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of this heading or of heading 84.44, 84.45, 84.46 or 84.47 (for example, spindles and spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples, shuttles, healds and heald-frames, hosiery needles).
Duty exemption will cover auxiliary machinery for machines of headings 84.44, 84.45, 84.46 or 84.47. The machines include dobbies and Jacquards; card reducing, copying, punching or assembling machines for use therewith and parts and accessories of machines of heading 84.44 or of their auxiliary machinery, parts and accessories of machines of heading 84.45 or of their auxiliary machiner, card clothing, tops and flats of machines for preparing textile fibres, other than card clothing.
Duty exemption would cover spindles, spindle flyers, spinning rings and ring travellers. It included spindle flyers and ring travellers, spindles, spinning rings and parts and accessories of weaving machines (looms) or of their auxiliary machinery like reeds for looms, healds and heald-frames and duty exemption would be available on the import of parts and accessories of machines of heading 84.47 or of their auxiliary machinery and Sinkers, needles and other articles used in forming stitches.
The exemption of customs duty would be applicable on import of machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt or nonwovens in the piece or in shapes, including machinery for making felt hats; blocks for making hats, household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry and machines, each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg. It included fully-automatic machines, other machines, with built-in centrifugal drier and machines, each of a dry linen capacity exceeding 10 kg.
The machinery (other than machines of heading 84.50) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made-up textile articles and machines for applying the paste to the base fabric or other support used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum, machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics.
Textile industry can also avail duty exemption on import of dry-cleaning machines, drying machines, each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg 5, ironing machines and presses (including fusing presses), washing, bleaching or dyeing machines, washing machine, bleaching machine, dyeing machine, machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics. Other machinery included coating or laminating machine, machinery for pressing, dressing and finishing machine, mercerising machine, sanforising machines, stentering machines, shrinking machines and others.
The exemption of customs duty would be available on import of sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of heading 84.40; furniture, bases and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles. It covers sewing machines of the household type in ckd/skd condition. Other sewing machines, automatic units, sewing machine needles, furniture, bases and covers for sewing machines and parts thereof, other parts of sewing machines and duty exemption would also be applicable on other items specified in the notification.