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2003 (7) TMI 374

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..... Jyoti Balasundaram, Member (J)]. The brief facts of the case are that the respondent herein are engaged in manufacture of cigarettes. They also make embossed paper backed aluminium foils out of duty paid paper backed aluminium foils falling under chapter sub-heading 7607.60 of Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985. The aluminium foils are cut to shape for further use in the factory for packing o .....

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..... r vide his order No. K-III/17 to 27/97, dated 4-7-97 confirmed the duty demands holding that the product was a result of manufacture. The Commissioner (Appeals) set aside the adjudication order holding that no new products emerge as a result of embossing and cutting to shape, applying the ratio of the Tribunal's order in the case of Swastik Packaging v. CCE [1986 (23) E.L.T. 217] upheld by the Ape .....

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..... ied in the present case and merely because an item falls in a tariff entry, manufacture must not be deemed, as held by the Apex Court in the case of CCE, Chandigarh v. Markfed Vanaspati Allied Industries [2003 (153) E.L.T. 491 (S.C.)]. The department has not brought any material on record to establish that a new product, distinct and different from plain paper backed aluminium foils and having d .....

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