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Issues: Whether a copolymer of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate, containing 93% and 7% of the respective monomer units, could be regarded as a polymer of vinyl chloride for the purpose of Customs Notification No. 21/2002-Cus and the relevant tariff entry.
Analysis: Heading 3904 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act covers polymers of vinyl chloride, and sub-heading 3904 30 specifically covers vinyl chloride vinyl acetate copolymers. Chapter Note 4 treats a product as a copolymer where no single monomer unit contributes 95% or more by weight to the total polymer content. Since the imported goods contained vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate in the proportions of 93% and 7%, respectively, they were properly classifiable as a copolymer. The broader wording of Heading 3904 was held to include such a copolymer within the expression polymers of vinyl chloride.
Conclusion: The imported goods were eligible for the benefit of Notification No. 21/2002-Cus, and the revenue appeal failed.
Final Conclusion: The concessional customs benefit was upheld on the footing that the imported copolymer fell within the tariff description of polymers of vinyl chloride, and the assessment directed by the appellate authority was sustained.
Ratio Decidendi: A vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer with vinyl chloride as the predominant monomer unit falls within the tariff description polymers of vinyl chloride and is entitled to the corresponding exemption benefit where the notification covers that heading.
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