1986 (12) TMI 268

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....ii) @ Rs. 18/- per Kg. The Assistant Collector of Central Excise held that it was assessable under Central Excise Tariff Item 18-E @ Rs. 24/- per kg. 2. When the party went up in appeal, the Appellate Collector upheld the classification under Tariff Item 18-E on the ground that Tariff Item 18-III pertains to yarn in which man-made fibre of cellulosic origin predominates in weight. In this case the percentage of man-made cellulosic fibre being only 47%, it was held that the appellants plea that the goods are correctly classifiable under Item 18-III of Central Excise Tariff had to be rejected and the goods had to be considered non-cellulosic yarn attracting classification under Central Excise Tariff Item 18-E. However, the Appellate Collec....

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.... not been contended by the appellants before the lower authorities, they would now like to submit that the correct classification for the product, in view of the foregoing arguments, is under Item 68 of the Central Excise Tariff. 5. Shri P.K. Ajwani, SDR appearing for the department reiterates the view expressed by lower authorities. He submits that the request for classification under Item 68 is not tenable as no submission in this regard was made before the lower authorities. 6. We have carefully considered the facts of the case, the Orders of the lower authorities and the submissions made before us. We observe that appellants have for the first time taken the plea before us that the impugned goods are correctly classifiable under I....