Transferable duty credit scrips validity and bona fide transferee entitlement to exemption upheld where scrips were subsisting at import, appeals allo...
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Whether imported latch-and-actuator assemblies constitute finished automobile locks: found not to have essential character or independent locking function because substantial additional components and manufacturing are required; therefore they are parts of locks and must be reclassified - held: classifiable as parts of locks (CTH 83016000). Whether preferential rate denial was lawful: SCN issued after sixty days without challenge to country-of-origin documentation, rendering denial impermissible - held: benefit could not be denied and original findings set aside. Whether confiscation, penalty and redemption fine sustainable: absence of fraud, no prior customs bond and no prima facie evidence of wrongdoing - held: confiscation, penalty and redemption fine set aside. - CESTAT
Whether imported latch-and-actuator assemblies constitute finished automobile locks: found not to have essential character or independent locking function because substantial additional components and manufacturing are required; therefore they are parts of locks and must be reclassified - held: classifiable as parts of locks (CTH 83016000). Whether preferential rate denial was lawful: SCN issued after sixty days without challenge to country-of-origin documentation, rendering denial impermissible - held: benefit could not be denied and original findings set aside. Whether confiscation, penalty and redemption fine sustainable: absence of fraud, no prior customs bond and no prima facie evidence of wrongdoing - held: confiscation, penalty and redemption fine set aside. - CESTAT
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