Classification error relief: excise duty not required to be paid where prevailing practice led to non-levy during the specified period. Organic surface-active agents and surface-active preparations were wrongly classified under the tariff, and a generally prevalent practice resulted in non-levy of excise duty during a specified retrospective period; the Central Government directed that the excise duty which would otherwise have been payable on those goods for that period shall not be required to be paid where duty was not levied in accordance with that practice.
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Classification error relief: excise duty not required to be paid where prevailing practice led to non-levy during the specified period.
Organic surface-active agents and surface-active preparations were wrongly classified under the tariff, and a generally prevalent practice resulted in non-levy of excise duty during a specified retrospective period; the Central Government directed that the excise duty which would otherwise have been payable on those goods for that period shall not be required to be paid where duty was not levied in accordance with that practice.
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