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Issues: Whether surplus fuel or MGO/HSD contained in vessels imported for breaking up was to be treated as an integral part of the vessel classifiable under Heading 89.08 of the Import Policy, and whether confiscation and penalty could be sustained under the Customs Act.
Analysis: The dispute turned on the classification of fuel lying in the tanks of ships brought for breaking. The Tribunal followed its earlier decision and held that, for purposes of the Foreign Trade Policy, surplus fuel stored in the fuel tanks of a vessel imported for breaking up forms part of the ship itself and is classifiable with the vessel under Heading 89.08. It further held that a clarification issued by DGFT on import policy classification is binding on Customs in respect of ITC restrictions. Since imports under Heading 89.08 are free, the fuel could not be treated as a restricted item so as to attract confiscation. In that view, the penal consequences also could not survive.
Conclusion: The confiscation and penalty were not sustainable, and the appeals were allowed.
Final Conclusion: The impugned order was set aside on the footing that surplus fuel in vessels imported for breaking is to be treated as part of the vessel under the import policy, with no confiscation or penalty arising on that basis.
Ratio Decidendi: Where surplus fuel contained in a vessel imported for breaking is treated under the import policy as an integral part of the vessel and the relevant DGFT clarification classifies it as free, Customs cannot invoke confiscation or penalty on the premise that such fuel is a separately restricted import.
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