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Issues: Whether steel ingots manufactured using internally generated circulating scrap, which arose from the originally specified duty-paid inputs and was put back into the furnace within the same manufacturing process, remained eligible for exemption under Notification Nos. 152/77-C.E., 159/79-C.E. and 54/80-C.E.
Analysis: The exemption notifications required the final product to be manufactured from the specified inputs. The appellants had admittedly brought those specified inputs into the factory and the circulating scrap arose only during the course of processing those very inputs. The scrap was not separately sourced or cleared from the factory but was reintroduced into the same continuous manufacturing stream. The legal effect of the process was that the final product was manufactured out of the specified inputs through an intermediate stage of circulating scrap, not from an independent non-qualifying raw material. The Board's circular and contemporaneous trade notices also supported the view that internal circulating scrap could be mixed back and treated as eligible for the concessional treatment.
Conclusion: The appellants satisfied the conditions of the exemption notifications and were entitled to the benefit thereof. The demand was not sustainable on merits.
Final Conclusion: The appeal succeeded on the exemption issue, and the limitation objection was left undecided as academic.
Ratio Decidendi: Where internally generated scrap arises from the very duty-paid specified inputs used in a continuous manufacturing process and is merely recycled within the factory, the final product cannot be denied an exemption meant for goods manufactured from those specified inputs.
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