Benefit of exemption from excise duty - As long as the customers...

Benefit of exemption from excise duty - As long as the customers of the appellants are not engaged in the trade/commerce/business, inscription on the gold coins cannot said to have in connection in the course of trade with the product manufacture. - As long as the goods are not sold by the customers of the appellant in the brand name which they are manufactured, the same cannot be held bearing brand name making them dutiable. Therefore, as the appellants have not manufactured branded jewellery, the exemption contained in the said notification is applicable to them and the impugned order is not legally sustainable.- AT

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