14. Certain goods to be of special importance in inter-State trade or Commerce

It is hereby declared that the following goods are of special importance in inter- State trade or commerce:-

(i) Cereals, that is to say.-

(i) Paddy [oryza sativa 1];

(ii) Rice [oryza sativa 1];

(iii) Wheat[Triticum Vulgare, T.Compactum, T.Sphaerococum, T.durum, T.aestiuum L,T.dicoccum];

(iv) Jowar or milo [sorghum vulgare pers];

(v) Bajra [Pennisetum typhodeum 1];

(vi) Maize [Zea mays i];

(vii) Ragi [Eleusine Coracana gaertn.];

(viii) Kodon [paspalum scrobiculatum 1.];

(ix) Kutki [panicum miliare 1.];

(x) Barley [Hordeum vulgare 1.];

(i-a) coal including coke in all its forms, but excluding charcoal;

Provided that during the period commencing on the 23rd day of February, 1967 and ending with the date of commencement of section 11 of the Central Sales tax [Amendment] Act, 1972 ( 61 of 1972 ], this clause shall have effect subject to the modification that the words “but excluding

charcoal” shall be omitted.

(ii) cotton, that is say, all kinds of cotton (indigenous or imported] in its un manufactured state, whether ginned or un ginned, baled, pressed or otherwise, but not including cotton waste;

(ii-a) Cotton fabrics covered under heading Nos52.05, 52.06, 52.07, 52.08, 52.09, 52.10, 52.11, 52.12, 58.01, 58.02, 58.03, 58.04, 58.05, 58.06, 59.01, 59.03, 59.05, 59.06 and 60.01 of the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986);

(ii-b) cotton yarn, but not including cotton yarn waste;

(ii-c) crude oil, that is to say crude petroleum oils and crude oils obtained from bituminous minerals (such as shale, calcareous rock sand), whatever their composition, whether obtained from normal or condensation oil-deposits or by the destructive distillation of bituminous minerals an whether or not subjected to all or any of the following processes:--

(1) decantation

(2) desalting

(3) dehydration

(4) stabilization in order to normalize the vapour pressure

(5) elimination of very light fractions with a view to returning them to the oil-deposits in order to improve the drainage and maintain the pressure;

(6) the addition of only those hydrocarbons previously recovered by physical methods during the course of the above mentioned processes.

(7) any other minor process (including addition of poor point depressants or flow improvers) which does not change the essential character of the substance;

(ii-d) Aviation turbine fuel sold to an aircraft with a maximum take-off mass of less than forty thousand kilograms operated by schedules airlines.

Explanation:- For the purpose of this clause,”scheduled airlines” means the airlines which have been permitted by the Central Government to operate any schedules air transport service. [“Turbo-PropAircraft deriving thrust, mainly from propeller which may be driven by either turbine engine or piston engine.]

(iii) Hides and skins, whether in a raw or dressed state;

(iv) Iron and Steel, that is to say,-

(i) Pig iron, 2[sponge iron] and cast iron including ingot moulds, bottom plates, iron scrap, cast iron scrap, runner scrap and iron skull scrap ;

(ii) Steel semis (ingots, slabs, blooms and billets of all qualities, shapes and sizes];

(iii) Skelp bars, Tin bars, sheet bars, hoe-bars and sleeper bars;

(iv) Steel bars [rounds, rods, squares, flats, octagons and hexagons, plain and ribbed or twisted, in coil forms as well as straight lengths];

(v) Steel structural (angles, joists, channels, tees, sheet piling sections, Z sections or any other rolled sections];

(vi) Sheets, hoops, strips and skelp, both black and gal vanished, hot and cold rolled, plain and corrugated, in all qualities in straight lengths and in coil

form, as rolled and in riveted condition;

(vii) Plates both plain and chequered in all qualities;

(viii) discs, rings, forging and steel castings;

(ix) tool, alloy and special steels of any of the above categories;

(x) steel melting scrap in all forms including steel skull, turnings and borings;

(xi) steel tubes, both welded and seamless of all diameters and lengths, including tube fittings;

(xii) tin-plates, both hot dipped and electrolytic and tin free plates;

(xiii) fish plate bars, bearing plate bars, crossing sleeper bars, fish plates, bearing plates, crossing sleepers and pressed steel sleepers heavy and light crane rails;

(xiv) wheels, tyres, axles and wheels sets;

(xv) wire rods and wires-rolled, drawn, galvanized, aluminized, tinned or coated such as by copper;

(xvi) defectives, rejects, cuttings or end pieces of any of the above categories;

(v) Jute, that is to say, the fibre extracted from plants belonging to the species corchorus capsularies and corchorus olitorius and the fibre known as mesta or bimli extracted from plants of the species Hibiscus cannabinus and Hibiscus sabdariffa - Var alitissima and the fibre known as sun or sunn-hemp extracted from plants of the species crotalaria juncea whether baled or otherwise;

*(v-a) Liquified Petroleum Gas for domestic use;

(vi) Oil seeds, that is to say,-

(i) Groundnut or peanut (Arachis hypogaea);

(ii) Sesamum or Til (Sesamum orientale);

(iii) Cotton seed [Gossypium spp);

(iv) Soyabean (Glycine seja);

(v) Rapeseed and Mustard -

(1) Toria(Brassica campestris var toria);

(2) Rai (Brassica juncea);

(3) Jamba- Taramira (Eruca satiya);

(4) Sarson, yellow and brown (Brassica compestris var sarson);

(5) Banarsi Rai or True Mustarad (Brassica nigra);

(vi) Linseed (Linum usitatissimum);

(vii) Castor (Ricinus communis);

(viii) Coconut (ie., Copra excluding tender coconuts) cocosnucifera);

(ix) Sunflower (Helianthus annus);

(x) Niger seed (Guizotia abyssinica);

(xi) Neem, vepa (Azadirachta indica);

(xii) Mahua, illupai, Ippe (madhuca indica N. Latifolia, Bassia Latifolia and Madhuca longifolia syn.M. longifolia);

(xiii) Karanja, pongam, fonga (pongamia pinnata syn. P. Glabra);

(xiv) Kusum (schleichera oleosa, syn.S. trijuga);

(xv) Punna, undi (Calaphyllum inophyllum);.

(xvi) Kokum (Carcinia indica);

(xvii) Sal (Shorea robusta);

(xviii) Tung (Aleurities fordii and A.montana);

(xix) Red palm (Elaecis guinensis);

(xx) Safflower (carthanus tinctorius);]

[ vi-a] Pulses, that is to say,-

(i) Gram or gulab gram (cicerarietinum L);

(ii) Tur or ahar (cajanus cajan);

(iii) Moong or green gram (phaseolous aureus);]

(iv) Masur or lentil (Lens esculenta Moench, Lens culinaris Medic);

(v) Urad or black gram (phaseolus mungo);

(vi) Moth (phaseolus aconitifolius jacq);

(vii) Lakh or khesari (Lathyrus salivus -L);]

(vii) Man made fabrics covered under heading nos. 54.08, 54.09, 54.10,54.11, 54.12,55.07, 55.08, 55.09,55.10, 55.11, 55.12,58.01, 58.02, 58.03, 58.04, 58.05, [58.06], 59.01, 59.02, 59.03, 59.05, 59.06 and 60.01 of the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 [5 of 1986];

(viii) Sugar covered under sub-heading nos.1701.20, 1701.31, 1701.39 and 1702.11 of the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Acts, 1985 [5 of 1986];

(ix) [ Unmanufactured tobacco and tobacco refuse covered under sub-heading no. 2401.00, cigars and cheroots of tobacco covered under heading no. 24.02, Cigarettes and cigarillos of tobacco covered under sub-heading nos. 2403.11,2403.21,and othermanufactured tobacco under sub heading nos.2404.11,2404.12,2404.13,2404.19,2404.21, 2404.29, 2404.31,2404.39,2404.41,[2404.50 and2404.60] of the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act,1985 [ 5 of 1986]

(x) Woven fabrics of wool covered under heading nos. 51.06, 51.07, 58.01, 58.02,58.03 and 58.05 of the schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 [ 5 of 1986]

(xi) Omitted from 11th May 1968.