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Issues: Whether cotton yarn cleared on bobbins for conversion into hanks could be treated as fully finished goods so as to deny the benefit of Rule 56B of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 and sustain duty demand for removals made during the subsistence of the permission, and whether the exemption for cotton yarn in plain reel hanks negatived the duty demand.
Analysis: The removal of yarn on bobbins was made under an existing permission under Rule 56B, and the same goods were later treated by the very same authority as semi-finished goods for a subsequent period, showing no consistent basis for denying the earlier facility. The conversion of bobbins into hanks, cones and similar forms did not bring into existence a commercially different commodity, and the process remained within the same stream of yarn conversion. On that footing, the goods were eligible for removal under the Rule 56B procedure. The exemption notification for cotton yarn in plain reel hanks also supported the view that duty could not be demanded on the intermediate form merely because the yarn passed through bobbins before reaching the exempted hank stage.
Conclusion: The denial of Rule 56B benefit and the consequential duty demand were unsustainable, and the appeal succeeded in favour of the assessee.