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Issues: Whether ethyl alcohol/rectified spirit manufactured by the respondents was classifiable under Chapter Heading 3823 of the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 and liable to central excise duty during the relevant period, or whether no tariff entry covered the product.
Analysis: The product was treated as chemically an organic compound, but Chapter Note 2(b) of Chapter 29 excluded ethyl alcohol from that Chapter. The material was not shown, by any test report or other reliable evidence, to be suitable for use as fuel for spark ignition engines so as to attract Chapter Heading 2204 for the relevant period. At the same time, the mere fact that a substance has a chemical formula does not make it classifiable under the residuary heading for miscellaneous chemical products. The scheme of the tariff does not permit automatic resort to a residuary heading merely because the product is excisable in constitutional terms. A duty demand under the tariff requires a specific tariff entry covering the commodity.
Conclusion: Ethyl alcohol was not classifiable under Chapter Heading 3823, and no other tariff entry was shown to cover it during the relevant period; the Revenue's appeals therefore failed.
Final Conclusion: The impugned orders were sustained and the demand of central excise duty on the product was not upheld.
Ratio Decidendi: Excise duty cannot be levied unless the commodity is not only within legislative competence but is also specifically covered by a tariff entry under the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985; a residuary heading cannot be used to classify a product merely because it is otherwise excisable in principle.
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