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Issues: Whether dry roasting, oil roasting, salting and seasoning of cashew nuts, peanuts and almonds amounts to manufacture and whether the processed nuts remain classifiable under Chapter 8 of the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 or shift to Chapter 20.
Analysis: The relevant test is whether the processing brings into existence a commercially distinct product. The cited precedents were distinguished on facts, and the Tribunal preferred the line of authority dealing with similar processing of cashew nuts. Applying the principle that classification must follow the commercial identity of the goods and the actual effect of the process, the Tribunal held that roasting and salting did not create a new commodity for excise purposes. The goods continued to answer the description of edible nuts under Chapter 8, and the higher classification under Chapter 20 was not warranted.
Conclusion: The processing did not amount to manufacture, the goods remained classifiable under Chapter 8, and excise duty was not payable.
Final Conclusion: The demand, penalties and confiscation based on reclassification failed, and the appeal succeeded on merits.
Ratio Decidendi: Mere roasting, salting and similar limited processing of edible nuts does not amount to manufacture unless it results in a commercially distinct product; classification must follow the commercial identity of the goods as processed.
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