https://www.taxtmi.com/forum/issue?id=789 Department seeks recovery of excise duty with interest from a supplier who sent slit-to-size steel coils to a 100% EOU under CT3, asserting slitting is a process not manufacturing and CT3 was improperly issued. The EOU claims exemption and will not pay. Advisories differ: one advises that traded goods are generally not eligible for duty-free supply to EOUs and suggests availment of credit and refund by the EOU or litigation by the supplier; another contends a duty demand is not tenable if slitting is merely a process. en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 18:56:24 +0530 Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:58:52 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/forum/issue?id=789 Department seeks recovery of excise duty with interest from a supplier who sent slit-to-size steel coils to a 100% EOU under CT3, asserting slitting is a process not manufacturing and CT3 was improperly issued. The EOU claims exemption and will not pay. Advisories differ: one advises that traded goods are generally not eligible for duty-free supply to EOUs and suggests availment of credit and refund by the EOU or litigation by the supplier; another contends a duty demand is not tenable if slitting is merely a process. Discussion-Forum Central Excise Thu, 15 May 2008 18:56:24 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/forum/issue?id=789