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2012 (8) TMI 790 - AAR - Central ExciseOnline platform to facilitate the sale of goods by various merchants - Whether activities proposes to undertake warehouse amount to manufacture ? - Held that:- None of the assessee's activities alter the primary packing or the original labeling affixed by the merchant under applicable regulations. Also no change is made in the MRP/RSP of any item received in the warehouse. All the labeling requirements are required to be fulfilled by merchants themselves and the goods as received in the applicant's warehouse would have the MRP/RSP already pre-affixed or pre-printed - As the applicant carries all their activities to protect the merchant's goods, facilitate inventory management and the logistics of storage, retrieval, shipment and transportation of goods, thus, the different types of stickering done by them cannot come within the meaning of the expression labeling or relabeling for the purposes of the Act and would not amount to manufacture As the goods as received would be in retail packages with all required labeling and marking has not been disputed. As that the applicant's facility is only one of the channels for distribution available to the merchants who use it. The products that they list on the applicant‟s website would also, in the vast majority of cases, get distributed and sold through other conventional channels of retail trade and in the very form in which they are received in the applicant‟s warehouse. Hence the conclusion that inexorably follows is that they are already marketable. Thus, as the applicant is providing an online retail distribution channel and the associated logistical services His role therefore does come across clearly as one of service provider as the activities described in the application do not amount to manufacture within the meaning of S. 2(f) of the Central Excise Act, 1944.
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