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Issues: Determination of the weight of an imported ship for customs duty under Heading 89.08 for ship-breaking purposes, and whether the light displacement tonnage recorded in the Stability Book must be mechanically adopted.
Analysis: The ship was old, imported for breaking, and its original LDT in the Stability Book was not in dispute. A survey report suggesting substantial loss in weight was not accepted as reliable because it was not based on physical verification of hull thickness and other agreed norms. The imported vessel had also aged considerably by the time of clearance. The tariff note defining LDT under Chapter 89 was inserted only later and could not govern the import in question. In these circumstances, the recorded LDT could not be treated as conclusive, nor could the scrap weight alone be adopted as the ship's clearance weight.
Conclusion: The weight for customs duty was to be determined on a reasonable basis, and the impugned assessment was modified by fixing the ship's weight at 11,007 MTs, with the duty recomputed accordingly.
Final Conclusion: The appeal succeeded in part by reducing the assessable weight of the ship for customs duty purposes and requiring fresh computation of duty on that basis.
Ratio Decidendi: For an old ship imported for breaking prior to the operative tariff clarification, the assessable LDT need not be taken rigidly from the Stability Book and may be fixed on a reasonable estimate supported by surrounding circumstances when no reliable contemporaneous data is available.
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