Incentive Data

Exemption of Custom Duty and Taxes on import of Capital Goods for Zone Enterprises

  1. “one time exemption from all custom-duties and taxes on plant and machinery imported into Pakistan except the items listed under Chapter 87 of the Pakistan Customs Tariff, for installation in that zone enterprise subject to verification by the BOI”
  2. “Capital goods, as defined in the preamble of Part-I of the Fifth Schedule to the Customs Act, and firefighting equipment, except the items listed under Chapter 87 of the Pakistan Customs Tariff, imported for setting up of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) by zone developers and for installation in that zone by Zone Enterprises, on one-time basis as prescribed in the SEZ Act, 2012 and rules thereunder subject to such conditions, limitations and restrictions as the Federal Board of Revenue may impose from time to time.”
  3. Capital Goods definition:

“Capital Goods” mean any plant, machinery, equipment, spares and accessories, classified in Chapters 84, 85 or any other chapter of the Pakistan Customs Tariff, required for-

  1. the manufacture or production of any goods, and includes refractory bricks and materials required for setting up a furnace, catalysts, machine tools, packaging machinery and equipment, refrigeration equipment, power generating sets and equipment, instruments for testing, research and development, quality control, pollution control and the like; and
  2. use in mining, agriculture, fisheries, animal husbandry, floriculture, horticulture, livestock, cool chain, dairy and poultry industry, “IT sector, Storage, communication, and infrastructure development of SEZs by zone developer”.

 

*(Section 37 (a) of the SEZ Act 2012)

(As per serial no. 2 of the PCT Code 9917 in Sub-Chapter-V in Chapter 99 of the Pakistan Customs Tariff)

(Part-1 of the Fifth Schedule to Customs Act 1969)