Empowerment to deny availment of exemption extended to...

Empowerment to deny availment of exemption extended to indigenously manufactured goods - The essence of optimal sourcing being the disregarding of customs frontiers, the enumeration of goods entitled to exemption from duties of customs does not bear replication in the exemption notification under Central Excise Act, 1944 and the condition prescribed therein should not have to be expanded beyond that limited purpose. It would be stating the obvious to point out that domestic procurement is not subject to the same risks or the verification of eligibility so burdensome as to warrant that the facilitative procedures of the notification issued under Customs Act, 1962 be replicated in the notification issued under Central Excise Act, 1944. - AT