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Issues: (i) Whether the extended period of limitation under the proviso to Section 11A(1) of the Central Excise Act was invocable on the facts of the case. (ii) Whether the various grades of ABS resins manufactured by the assessee were classifiable under sub-heading 3903.30 as ABS ter-polymers or under sub-heading 3903.90 as other polymers of styrene in primary form.
Issue (i): Whether the extended period of limitation under the proviso to Section 11A(1) of the Central Excise Act was invocable on the facts of the case.
Analysis: The assessee had disclosed the grades of ABS polymers in the RT-12 returns, shown the classification as sub-heading 3903.30, furnished manufacturing details in response to departmental query, and made Modvat declarations disclosing the raw materials and chemicals used. On that record, the necessary element of suppression of facts or wilful misstatement was absent.
Conclusion: The extended period of limitation was not invocable and the demand for the disputed period was time-barred.
Issue (ii): Whether the various grades of ABS resins manufactured by the assessee were classifiable under sub-heading 3903.30 as ABS ter-polymers or under sub-heading 3903.90 as other polymers of styrene in primary form.
Analysis: Sub-heading 3903.30 covers ABS ter-polymers. The assessee's products were manufactured by blending ABS resins with additives and other polymers, but the products remained basically ABS polymers. Chapter Note 14 to Chapter 39 supports classification of polymer blends of a copolymer in the same sub-heading as the copolymer, and the same reasoning was applied to the ABS ter-polymer in question.
Conclusion: The goods were correctly classifiable under sub-heading 3903.30 and not under sub-heading 3903.90.
Final Conclusion: The demand could not be sustained either on limitation or on merits, and the assessee was entitled to succeed in the appeal.
Ratio Decidendi: Full disclosure in statutory returns and declarations negates suppression of facts for invoking the extended period, and polymer blends of ABS remain classifiable with the parent ABS ter-polymer where the tariff note so directs.
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