C.No. S-12/39/2003 CH Date: 27-02-2004

PUBLIC NOTICE NUMBER: 11 /2004

Sub: “Know your Central Excise Tariff”-Reg.

In pursuance of the Government’s decision to implement e-governance, Directorate General of Systems & Data Management , Customs & Central Excise , New Delhi, with the help of NIC is hosting a new site for Web enabled Central Excise Tariff (CET) Item-wise query system (IQ) through sermon Website: http://sermon.nic.in/public1.html. It can also be accessed alternatively by clicking the button named as “Know Your Central Excise Tariff” on the sermon home page that appears on accessing the sermon Website:http://sermon.nic.in. On clicking the said website, it will open up the screen: ‘Query Based System for Central Excise Tariff’, wherein any product description or CETH may be entered in the given boxes to ascertain the rate of duty. The system will not only give the CENVAT rate but also other duties like AED (GSI), AED (TTA) etc., wherever applicable. The applicable exemption notifications and the effective rate of duty can also be accessed by clicking the CETH and the system will guide in exhibiting the applicable exemption notification and the effective rate under various exemption notifications.

The new site helps citizens and assessees in ascertaining the accurate classification of a particular commodity and likely duty leviable thereon. The exemption notification applicable to the product will also be possible through a query mode. The trade, departmental officers and citizens in general may avail of this facility and draw maximum benefit.

P. Karthikeyan

Commissioner

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