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2016 (7) TMI 434 - CGOVT - Central ExciseClaim of rebate/ refund - input stage rebate - export of goods - The adjudicating authority rejected all the rebate claims of the respondent holding that they failed to get the input output ratio approved in respect of Menthol Crystals as required under Notification No. 21/2004-CE(NT) dated 06109.2004 and rebate claim were not admissible to them as they had failed to fulfill the conditions of Notification ibid. - Commissioner (Appeals) allowed the rebate. Held that:- it is clear that the respondent was not given any permission for manufacture and export of menthol crystals under claim for import duty rebate as they has never applied for fixation of input output ratio in respect of Menthol Crystals. The input output ratio for menthol crystals was applied for vide declaration dated 28.06.2010 and thereafter approved vide letter dated 31.01.2011. Government finds as untenable the presumption of Commissioner (Appeals) that as same ratio has been fixed first for menthol and then for menthol crystals, the norms for crystals can be said to have been fixed at the same time as that for menthol. Menthol and menthol crystals are two distinct products classifiable under distinct tariff headings viz 2906 and 3003 respectively as held in the impugned Order-in-Original. It is an uncontested fact that both items not only fall under different headings but the process of manufacture is also different as menthol is in liquid form and menthol crystals are in crystal form. The respondent was therefore, required to file different declaration and get separate approvals for the norms for each product sought to be exported for each product sought to be exported in terms of Notification No. 21/2004-CE(NT) dated 06.09.2004 read with para 2 of part V of Chapter 8 to CBEC Supplementary Instructions Manual. Para 2 of the said Notification clearly states that the correctness of the ratio of the input output ratio shall be verified before the commencement of the export of the said goods but in the present case, the respondent exported the goods before the verification of input output ratio as well as fixation of the input output norms. Thus they had failed to satisfy the condition of the Notification ibid. - Claim of rebate denied - Decided against the assessee and in favor of revenue.
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