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Issues: Whether the appellant's processes in mixing, homogenising, filling, labelling and packing nail enamel amounted to manufacture so as to satisfy the condition in the area based exemption notification and entitle the appellant to exemption.
Analysis: The exemption notification denied benefit where goods were subjected only to peripheral activities unless they were also subjected to any other process amounting to manufacture in Uttarakhand or Himachal Pradesh. The definition of manufacture in section 2(f) of the Central Excise Act, 1944 includes a process incidental or ancillary to completion of a manufactured product and also any other treatment that renders the product marketable to the consumer. On the facts, the raw material supplied in bulk form was not commercially known or marketable as nail enamel. The appellant's processing, including testing, homogenisation, viscosity adjustment, filling in small bottles, and specialised retail packing with brush and label, conferred marketability and commercial identity on the product as nail enamel. The process was therefore more than mere repacking or labelling and fell within manufacture for the purpose of the notification.
Conclusion: The appellant's activity amounted to manufacture and the area based exemption was admissible.
Ratio Decidendi: Where processing of bulk raw material results in a commercially distinct and marketable product, and the treatment renders the product marketable to the consumer, the activity constitutes manufacture for purposes of the excise exemption notification.
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