Custom duty exempted on Air guns of .177 cal

danish21 · Post by **danish21** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:35 pm

A boost for Indian shooting

February 29. It turned out to be a day for rejoice for everyone connected with shooting sports as the Finance Minister in his budget speech today announced that air rifle and air pistols have been totally exempted from the custom duty for everyone as compared to the earlier rule which was duty free only for the National Shooters. With this rule now even a beginner can import a duty free air gun.

This move will certainly make the sport of shooting more popular in the country as the air rifle and air pistol events are the most popular among the masses and as compared to other events of shooting the training costs are low and they also do not require arms license.

These events are commonly played by many school and college students in India. As the domestic manufactures are not able meet required precision standards, most of the shooters prefer to import air rifles and air pistols. Beginners especially the young children used to find it very difficult, to import these weapons because they did not have sufficient funds to pay the heavy custom duties.

"This will facilitate broad basing of shooting sports in the country and will and make it more affordable now for many aspiring shooters" said Naveen Jindal a shooter and MP who was vigorously following up this case with the Ministry of Finance requesting them to exempt air weapons from the levy of custom duties.

This move is very much welcomed by the shooting fraternity in this Olympic year in which four out of nine Olympic qualified shooters would be participating in the air gun events at the Beijing Olympics....Thank you Mr. FM. indianshooting.com
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Sid_kapur30 · Post by **Sid_kapur30** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:04 pm

when will this ruling come into action ???

Cheers
Sid

shutzen · Post by **shutzen** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:06 pm

HI! What any info on what cals are permitted? I had read a news item somewhere that running target air event might be re-introduced in the olympics - If it happens then it should go all the way till .25 I think ( havto chk out the exact cal. used though) Might require a amendment in the notification. Hell with all the problems in India with firearms and lack of training at least the airsoft and paintballs should be made totally duty free so that citizens can use it to practice and a new sport can develop.

danish21 · Post by **danish21** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:11 pm

Chapter 90 to 96

90.1. Customs duty & CV duty have been exempted on Air guns of 0.177 calibre (air rifle & air pstols) of Chapter 93. Consequently, these goods are also exempted from 4% special additional duty of customs (S.No. 52 of notification No. 21/2002- customs, inserted vide notification No. 21/2008-customs, refers).

http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2008-09/cen/exnotecus.pdf

YouTube · Post by **mundaire** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:21 pm

Excellent news indeed! Danish, thank you for the quick update on this budget's positive aspects.

Cheers!
Abhijeet

GasramGandu · Post by **GasramGandu** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:37 pm

Woohoo! High five boys

kanwal · Post by **kanwal** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:41 pm

A GREAT NEWS THANKS A TON MR. FM

Mo · Post by Mo » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:51 pm

Wow! This is great news indeed!

air rifle and air pistols have been totally exempted from the custom duty for everyone

Does the rule that you need to be a member of a State or National Rifle Association to import been taken away too?

Excuse me if its a stupid question. I just asked cause it says it exempted for everyone.

snIPer · Post by **snIPer** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:00 pm

wow this is really good news. Once its official we can start our importing

GasramGandu · Post by **GasramGandu** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:08 pm

Mo, this exemption looks like it's only for duty rates. I don't think it would affect the import policy.

GG

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:33 pm

I think GG is right, the link provided by Mo clearly says that the duties have been deleted but nothing about the chabging of import policies..
Regards
Happy.

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:35 pm

i mean link provided by danish..sorry for that

Post by **kanwar76** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:49 pm

Gr8888 so now we can get .177 guns at US + shipping... gr888888..

Kudos to Jindal, thats what happen when you get right people in power. We need people like him.. I am going to send him a thank you note..

-Inder

Post by **Mack The Knife** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:56 pm

kanwar76";p="39490 wrote:I am going to send him a thank you note..

-Inder

Inder,

If there is a postal or Member of Parliament e-mail address post it here, so everyone can send him his/her thanks.

Now watch how NRAI tries taking credit for this in their next newsletter...

Post by **kanwar76** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:44 pm

Mack The Knife Bana";p="39491 wrote:
kanwar76";p="39490 wrote:I am going to send him a thank you note..

-Inder
Inder,

If there is a postal or Member of Parliament e-mail address post it here, so everyone can send him his/her thanks.

Now watch how NRAI tries taking credit for this in their next newsletter...

Hi Rusty,
He is a MP from my Constituency, http://www.naveenjindal.com is his official site and I believe his email is [email protected]

You can leave your comments here also : http://www.naveenjindal.com/message-board.html

Don't know whether he reads them or not...

-Inder

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