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2015 (4) TMI 733 - CESTAT NEW DELHI100% EOU - Exemption from Basic Customs Duty under Notification No. 21/02-CUS (Sl. No. 200) - Steel scrap cleared into DTA - whether the duty on the DTA clearances is paid at the concessional rate under Notification No. 23/03-CE or the duty is paid without availing of this exemption on the full rate prescribed under proviso to Section 3 (1), the Basic Customs Duty would have to be calculated at the rate applicable to the import of like goods into India, readwith any customs duty exemption notification issued under Section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 and if in respect of any imported goods, the effective rate of duty is nil, it is the that rate which would have to be adopted and the basic Customs duty component of the excise duty payable on the DTA clearances would be nil. Held that:- if some goods imported into India are fully and unconditionally exempt from Basic Customs Duty by some exemption notification, while calculating the Central Excise Duty leviable on the DTA clearances of those goods, the Basic Customs Duty would have to be taken as nil, even if those DTA clearances are not in accordance with the conditions prescribed in para 6.8 of the Foreign Trade Policy. It is seen that same view has been taken by the Board in its Circular No. 305/83/94-FTT dated 15/09/1994. - the nature of the scrap cannot be determined on the basis as to whether it has been sold the actual users or the dealers, as only use to which Iron and Steel Scrap can be put, is by melting the same to make some other Iron and Steel products. Same view has been taken by the Tribunal in its judgments in the case of Indo Deutsche Trade Links vs. CC (Imports), Chennai reported in [2014 (2) TMI 779 - CESTAT CHENNAI] of the judgment. - part of the impugned order confirming the duty demand on the basis of denial of exemption under Notification No. 21/02-CUS in respect of Basic Customs Duty is not sustainable and the same has to be set aside. As regards the exemption from the portion of the Central Excise Duty equivalent to the Special Additional Customs Duty (SAD) payable under Section 3 (5) of the Customs Tariff Act, the Department s contention is that the SAD would be payable as the clearances are not in terms of para 6.8 (a) of the Foreign Trade Policy and as such the exemption in terms of Sl. No. 1 of the table annexed to exemption Notification No. 23/03-CE would not be applicable. - Since on the goods sold into DTA, VAT levied by the State Government has been paid, and in this regard, there is no dispute, the conditions of exemption Notification No. 102/2007-CUS dated 14/09/07, as applicable to the DTA clearances of a 100% EOU, have been substantially satisfied and hence the goods would be fully exempt from SAD as, in our view, the benefit of this notification, which has been issued for the goods imported by person for subsequent sale and whose condition have been prescribed accordingly, cannot be denied in respect of DTA clearances of a 100% EOU if the condition as applicable mutatis mutandis to DTA sales are satisfied. The duty demand based on this issue is also not sustainable. - Decided in favour of assessee.
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