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Issues: Whether the appellant was entitled to the benefit of Notification No. 62/2007-CUS dated 03.05.2007 on the basis of a private test report, despite departmental laboratory reports showing iron ore fines with Fe content above the stipulated limit.
Analysis: The claim to exemption depended on establishing that the exported iron ore fines had Fe content below 62%. Samples were drawn by the department in the presence of both sides and tested in the Customs Laboratory and again at CRCL, and both reports showed Fe content above the prescribed limit. The private report relied on by the appellant was based on samples not drawn under departmental procedure and not in the presence of departmental , so it could not displace the official laboratory reports. The governing principle is that official chemical examination conducted under the prescribed procedure cannot be lightly ignored in favour of private opinion unless demonstrated to be palpably wrong, which was not shown here.
Conclusion: The appellant was not entitled to the exemption, and the departmental test reports were rightly preferred over the private report.
Final Conclusion: The appeal failed because the export goods did not satisfy the Fe-content condition for concessional treatment and the impugned assessment was sustained.
Ratio Decidendi: Where samples are drawn and tested according to the prescribed departmental procedure, official laboratory reports prevail over private test reports unless the official analysis is shown to be demonstrably erroneous.
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