2005 (1) TMI 491

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.... JDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : T. Anjaneyulu, Member (J)]. - The main issue involved in this appeal is that whether the activities of dismantling, breaking and cutting of the ships resulting in realization of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap of the iron and steel, copper and brass amounts to manufacture and attracts Central Excise duties? 2. M/s. Hariyana Steel Co. (Delhi) Ltd., Stee....

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....e following manner :- (a) The scrap generated out of the duty paid inputs are exempted under Notification No. 204/1993-C.E., dated 1-8-1983, as such no Excise Duty is leviable on waste and scrap of iron and steel. The scrap had been cleared on payment of customs duty, inclusive of CVD equal to Central Excise duty leviable under Tariff Item 58 of the Central Excise Tariff. (b) That consequent to ....

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....ng, breaking and cutting of the ship, which results in production of the ferrous and non-ferrous scrap of iron and steel, copper/brass, lead, tin and aluminium, etc. Thus, the ship breaking activity amounts to manufacture under Section 2(f) of the Central Excise & Salt Act, 1944. (b) The resultant scrap arising during this process will have to discharge appropriate rate of duty under appropriate ....