The commerce ministry is likely to notify revised positive list for allowing import of 312 new items from India, mainly raw material, surgical related equipment, homeopathic medicines, diesel locomotives, machinery and parts, saturated proply alcohol, animal, vegetables and leather after tanning.
"We have forwarded the list to the law ministry for vetting and as we receive it we will notify it within a couple of days, most probably on Saturday," an official told Business Recorder.
The duty on most of the items will be 5 percent and the list has been prepared in consultation with all the stakeholders in view of economic considerations for reducing input costs of locally-finished products, the official added.
The items which have been allowed to be imported from India are: grain sorghum, Vermiculite, perlite and chlorites, unexpanded, Bituminous coal, coke of coal, pitch, calcined, nitric acid, other, potassium hydroxide (caustic potash), zinc oxide; zinc peroxide, potassium chlorates, alums, nitrates of sodium, other, benzene, toluene, oxylene, trichloroethylene, other, saturated proply alcohol (propan1), Butan 1 01 (nbutyl alcohol), ethylene glycol (ethanediol) (MEG), vinyl acetate, ethylenediamine and its salts, amphetamine (INN), benzfttamine (INN), dexamfetamine (INN), etilamfetamine (INN), fencamfamin (INN) and phentermine (INN); salts thereof, ingredients for pesticides, dextropropoxyphene and its salts, Alpha cyano, 3phenoxybenzyl, trans 3 (2,2 diclord vinyl) 2,2 dimethyl cyclopropane carboxylate, (s) Alpha cyano, 3phenoxybenzyl (s) 2(4, chloro phenyl)3 mehtyl butyrate, Cyano, 3phenony benzyl 2,2,3,3 tetra methyl cyclopropane carboxalate, Nmethylpyrolidon, Ingredients for pesticides, other, Ingredients for pesticides, 3Quinuclidinyl benzilate, Quniuclidine3ol, Containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof but not containing hormones, Cod liver oil, vascular grafts, chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, Animal or vegetable fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated, Crude, Potassium chloride, Sulphonic acid (Soft), Mould release preparations, Pesticides, Phosphatic insecticides, other, Fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant growth regulators, refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 27.07 or 29.02, prepared culture media for development of micro-organisms, Polyethylene having a specific gravity of 0.94 or more Polyurethanes, Printing blankets, whole hides and skins, Full grains, unsplit; grain splits, other, Full grain, unsplit, grain splits, other, Full grains, unsplit, Grain Splits, other, Leather further prepared after tanning, Of mink, whole, with or without head, tail or paws, Of lamb, the following: Astrakhan, Broadtail, Caracul, Persian and similar lamb, Indian, Chinese, Mongolian or tibetan lamb, whole, with or without head, tail or paws, Of fox, whole with or without head, tail or paws, Of seal, whole with or without head, tail or paws, other furskins, whole, with or without head, tail or paws, heads tails paws and other pieces or cuttings, suitale for furriers' use, whole skins, with or without head, tail or paws, not assembled: of mink, Of lamb, the following: Astrakhan, Broadtail, Caracul, Persian and similar lamb, Indian, Chinese, Mongolian or Tibetan lamb, other, Heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings, not assembled, Whole skins and pieces or cuttings thereof, assembled, other, Textile fabrics, felt and feltlined woven fabrics, coated, covered or laminated, Of other agglomerated abrasives or of ceramics, Nonalloy pig iron containing by weight more than 0.5% of phosphorus:, Rerollable, other, Remelting scrap ingots, Granules, Of refined copper, Of copper alloys, cold rolled steel strips of thickness below 0.5 mm and upto 100 mm wide, Of a kind used in manufacture of pneumatic tyres (bead wire), Of a thickness exceeding 10 mm, Of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more but not exceeding 10 mm, Of a thickness of 3 mm or more but less than 4.75 mm, Of a thickness of less than 3 mm, Of a thickness exceeding 10 mm, Of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more but not exceeding 10 mm, of width up to 700 mm, other, Of a width up to 700 mm, of Series 200, 301, 303, 304, 304L, 316, 316L, 410, 420 & 430, other, Of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more, Of a width up to 700 mm, thickness up to 4mm of Series, other, Of a width up to 700 mm, other, Of a width up to 700 mm, other, Of a width up to 700 mm, thickness, other, Sheets in circular shape of all sizes, other, Grainoriented, other, Grainoriented, other, high tensile (DIN Grade 8.8 ASTM A325 or ASTMA 193 b7), Shoe lasts, Tools for pressing, stamping or punching, For metal working, auxiliary plants for use with boilers of heading 84.02 or 84.03, turbines for marine propulsion, Of an output exceeding 40 MW, Of an output not exceeding 40 MW, Parts, wind mills, furnace burners for liquid fuel, other furnace burners, including combination burners, parts, machinery for filling, closing, sealing, or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers; machinery for aerating beverages, Steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines, Drip Irrigation System, other (drip irrigation system), of machines of heading 8424.2010, 8424.3000 and 8424.8100, powered by electric motor, portal or pedestal jib cranes, specially designed for underground use, other, bucket type, other, belt type, For cement plants, other, mine wagon pushers, locomotive or wagon traversers, wagon tippers and similar railway wagon handing equipment, teleferics, chair-lifts, skidraglines; traction mechanisms for funiculars, Root or tuber harvesting machines, other, machniery:, machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables, other machinery, carding machines, combing machines, drawing or roving machines, Blow room machinery, other, textile doubling or twisting machines, welt winding machines, other, for weaving fabrics of a width exceeding 30 cm, shuttleless type, With cylinder diameter not exceeding 165mm, Flat knitting machines; stitchbonding machines, Multi head embroidery machines, other, other, other, of machines for preparing textile fibres, other than card clothing, Spindle flyers and ring travellers, Spindles, other, other, machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather, other machinery, parts Converters, ingot moulds and ladles, Casting machines, Parts, Tube mills, Hot or combination hot and cold, Cold, other, other parts, machining centres, Unit construction machines (single station), Multistation transfer machines, numerically controlled, other, numerically controlled, other, Waytype unit head machines numerically controlled, numerically controlled, other, numerically controlled, numerically controlled, numerically controlled, Universal engraving machine, numerically controlled, numerically controlled, numerically controlled, other, numerically controlled, other, other, Honing or lapping machines, numerically controlled, other, numerically controlled, numerically controlled, numerically controlled, other, Drawbenches for bars, tubes profiles, wire or the like, Thread rolling machines, machines for working wire, other sawing machines, Machines whch can carry out different types of machining operations without tool change between such operations, Hacksaw machines with blades of length not exceeding 45,6cm, other planning, milling or moulding (by cutting) machines, grinding, sanding or polishing machines, bending or assembling machines, drilling or mortioing machines, splitting, slicing or paring machines, other, rotary type (including combined rotary percussion), other, drills of all kinds, saws other chain saws, other, of chain saws, Of pneumatic tools, other, Handheld blow pipes, other gasoperated machinery and apparatus, other machinery and appratus, parts, crushing/screening plant, concrete batching plant, Not exceeding 150t/h, other, other parts, injection moulding machines extruders, of capacity not exceeding 0.22 litres, other, of capacity not exceeding 0.228 litres, other, formoulding or retreading pneumatic tyres or for moulding or otherwise forming inner tubes, other, other machinery, Parts, Rope or cable making machines, for treating motal, including cloctde who collwindors; Soap making machines, moulding patterns, Injection or compression types, other, moulds for glass, Moulds for mineral materials, mould for shoes, an output exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 75 kw, of an output exceeding 75kw but not exceeding 375 kW, of an output exceeding 375kw, submersible motors of stainless steel, Geared motors, Of an output not exceeding 5 kV, Windpowered( machine and parts) machines of metal.
For the manufacture of semiconductor devices on semiconductor waters, other, for rapid heating of semiconductor wafers, other, other equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss, of furnaces and ovens of headings 8514.1010, 5814.2010 and 8514.3010, soldering iron and guns, fully or partly automatic, fully or partly automatic, other machines and apparatus, parts, macrophones having a frequency range of 300 hz to 3.4 khz, circuit breakers above 10 amp, air circuit breakers, multi phase, wafer prbers, thyristors, diacs and triacs, other than photosensitive devices, photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules, dieselelectric locomotives, suction, pulmonary artery, foly's, surgical needles, endo tracheal tube, other, hydrometers, psychrometers, parts and accessories, other parts and accessories of hearings aids, pacing wire.
With the addition of 302 new items the positive list would increase to 1,075 items.