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Issues: Whether the Customs authorities were justified in enhancing the declared import value and assessing the goods on the enhanced value instead of the transaction value.
Analysis: Assessment of imported goods is ordinarily required to be made on the transaction value under the Customs (Valuation) Rules. The declared value can be discarded only on legally sustainable grounds. The record did not show any valid basis for treating the declared values as unacceptable. The enhancement was reflected as an SVB load, but no supporting instruction or reasoned rejection of the transaction value was shown. The consignments described as rejected stock lot and the small difference in the walkman value did not justify adoption of a standard or notional price. Section 14 of the Customs Act permits a notional or tariff value only in exceptional cases under section 14(2), which was not attracted here.
Conclusion: The enhancement of value was unjustified and the assessments were required to be made on the transaction value; the appeal succeeded in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: Imported goods must be assessed at the declared transaction value unless that value is lawfully rejected on recognised grounds; a notional or enhanced value cannot be adopted in the absence of such rejection or statutory tariff value.
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