'EOUs can import goods from Pakistan without paying customs duty'

The 5/2019 notification grants exemption on goods imported by EOUs from the whole of customs duty leviable thereon under the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975

We are a 100 per cent EOU and manufacturer-exporter of textile readymade garments. We are getting garment orders from our buyer from USA and we have to import fabric from Pakistan. However, as per notification 5/2019-Cus dated February 16, 2019, duty of 200 per cent is applicable under new HS code no. 9806.00 for imports from Pakistan. Can we import fabric from Pakistan under the EOU scheme without paying duty? 

As mentioned by you the said notification 5/2019 has inserted a new tariff entry at 98060000 for all goods originating in or imported from Pakistan. The 200 per cent duty