[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II,
SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]

                                 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
                                  MINISTRY OF FINANCE
                               (DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

                                      NOTIFICATION
                                    No. 23/2014 - Customs

                                                                  New Delhi, the 11th July, 2014

       G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the
Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in
the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the goods mentioned in column (1) of the Table
below of the description specified in column (2) of the said Table, when imported into India,
from the whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon which is specified in the First Schedule to
the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and from the whole of the additional duty leviable
thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, subject to the condition that the importer
produces, prior to clearance of the said goods, before the Assistant Commissioner of Customs or
Deputy Commissioner of Customs having jurisdiction, a certificate from an officer not below the
rank of Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare to the effect that the said goods are required for the National AIDS Control Programme
funded by Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM):-






                                            TABLE

                   (1)                                              (2)
                  Goods                                        Description
 Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARV Drugs)          Adult First Line - Zidovudine 300 mg +
                                            Lamivudine 150 mg + Nevirapine 200 mg,
                                            Zidovudine 300 mg + Lamivudine 150 mg,
                                            Tenofivir 300 mg + Lamivudine 150 mg, Tenofivir
                                            300 mg + Lamivudine 300 mg, Nevirapine 200 mg,
                                            Efavirenz 600 mg, Stavudine 30 mg + Lamivudine
                                            150 mg + Nevirapine 200 mg, Stavudine 30 mg +
                                            Lamivudine 150 mg, Abacavir 600 mg +
                                            Lamivudine 300 mg and Tenofivir 300 mg +
                                            Lamivudine 300 mg + Efavirenz 600 mg
                                            Adult Second Line - Atazanavir 300 mg Capsules,
                                            Ritonavir 100 mg tablets, Lopinavir 200 mg +
                                            Ritonavir 50 mg tablets
                                            Paediatric Drugs - Zidovudine 60 mg +
                                            Lamivudine 30 mg + Nevirapine 50 mg tablets,
                                            Stavudine 6 mg + Lamivudine 30 mg + Nevirapine
                                            50 mg tablets, Abacavir 60 mg + Lamivudine 30
                                            mg, Zidovudine 60 mg + Lamivudine 30 mg tablets,
                                            Stavudine 6 mg + Lamivudine 30 mg tablets,
                                            Nevirapine 50 mg tablets, Efavirenz 200 mg tablets,
                                            Lopinavir 100 mg + Ritonavir 25 mg tablets
 Diagnostics and Equipments                 Cluster of Differentiation (CD) 4 Kits / Reagents,
                                            HIV-DNA-PCR Kits for DNA Testing of Early
                                            Infant Diagnostics, Viral Load Kits, CD4 Machines,
                                            Viral Load Machines







2.    Nothing contained in this notification shall have effect on or after the first day of April,
2015.


                                                                      [F.No.334/15/2014 ­TRU]



                                                                               (Pramod Kumar)
                                                     Under Secretary to the Government of India