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2021 (1) TMI 551 - AAR - GSTClassification of goods - Chocolate Milk Powder - to be classified under HSN 0402 or under 1806 or under any other Chapter? - HELD THAT:- Milk and Milk products are classified in Chapter 4 and the headings 0401 86 0402 are relevant to Milk / Milk in the form of powder or granules and crème. The product in the instant case is neither milk nor milk powder but “Chocolate Milk Powder”, which is admittedly obtained on blending of Whole Milk Powder with Chacolate Flavoured Powder in the ratio of 97.5 to 2.5. Further it is an admitted / undisputed fact that the product in question also does not have the characteristics, required under FSSAI and BIS, to be considered as Milk Powder. Thus the instant product does not cover under the heading 0401 or 0402. The other remaining headings of Chapter 4 are not relevant to the instant product. Scope of alternate / competing entry under Chapter 18 - HELD THAT:- The entry covers cocoa (including cocoa beans) in all forms, cocoa butter, fat and oil preparations containing cocoa. Explanatory Notes of World Customs Organisation to heading 1805 clearly specify that cocoa powder to which milk powder or peptones have been added fall under tariff heading 1806. Heading 1806 covers Chacolate and other food preparations containing cocoa and World Customs Organisation explanatory notes to the said heading clearly specify that the heading 1806 includes all food preparations containing cocoa. The instant product being a food preparation made out of blending of white milk powder with cocoa. Thus the instant product merits classification under heading 1806.
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