Person chargeable with duty must be the importer at importation; subsequent purchasers cannot be held liable where beneficial owner rules did not appl...
Prohibited importation of cosmetics without prior regulatory registration attracts seizure and confiscation; warehousing or re export claims do not cu...
Provisional release on security permitted where cash deposit plus bond secures differential duty; classification and treaty benefits referred for deci...
Customs Valuation Rule Sequence must be followed; single-comparator re-determination and penalties set aside without comparability or proof of mis-dec...
Related-party imports justified rejection of the declared transaction value because common ownership and control created reasonable doubt as to its truth and accuracy under Rule 10A. After that rejection, valuation had to proceed strictly in sequence under the Customs Valuation Rules; a composite and unsupported resort to Rule 8, including use of domestic sale prices and an assumed average undervaluation, was unsustainable. Only the leather straps valuation was supported by duplicate invoices and could be adopted under Rule 5, so the demand was sustained only to that limited extent, while confiscation, redemption fine and penalties fell with the reassessment.
Related-party imports justified rejection of the declared transaction value because common ownership and control created reasonable doubt as to its truth and accuracy under Rule 10A. After that rejection, valuation had to proceed strictly in sequence under the Customs Valuation Rules; a composite and unsupported resort to Rule 8, including use of domestic sale prices and an assumed average undervaluation, was unsustainable. Only the leather straps valuation was supported by duplicate invoices and could be adopted under Rule 5, so the demand was sustained only to that limited extent, while confiscation, redemption fine and penalties fell with the reassessment.
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