1988 (3) TMI 303

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..... Shri J. Gopinath, SDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : Syiem, Member (T)].  - The learned Manager on behalf of M/s. BHEL said that these cases are covered by previous orders of this Tribunal. These orders are No. 496/87-B2 dated 15.4.1987, No. 497/87-B2 dated 15.4.1987 and No. 1044/87-B2 dated 9.6.1987. 2. The learned counsel for the department agreed that these orders cover th....

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....the purpose of assessment in accordance with the rules of interpretation under the Customs Tariff. In fact this is an acknowledgement that the goods are not yet finished, but have only acquired the essential shape and character of the final product. The Collector Appeals also says that the product if not called a component would be called semi-finished component steel parts. If the item is only se....

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....ngs under 26AA before the introduction of Item 68 and this continued even after 1.3.1975 until the practice was changed by tariff circular 50/81; the tariff circular directed the assessment only of raw castings/forgings under 26AA, and machined castings' forgings under 68, although the process of machining was only an incidental process to improve the quality of the castings/forgings and not a man....

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....no nomenclature and no coverage. It specified no good or class of goods; a product becomes assessable under it only by a process of elimination, when it can no longer be fitted anywhere else howsoever partially or inadequately. If a product or an item or a good can be fitted in an item, then 68 cannot receive it and will not be appropriate. It is only when all the preceding items cannot under any ....