CESTAT clarifies Rule 6 of Cenvat Credit Rules: Applies to manufacturers with both dutiable and exempt goods, not mixed products.

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....As per the CESTAT, Rule 6 of CCR applies only if some final product is partly exempt and partly dutiable. However, we do not find any such restriction in Rule 6 which contemplates the situation where a manufacturer produces (a) final products which are chargeable to duty, as well as (b) exempted goods. The Rule does not provide that the same final product should be partly dutiable and partly exempted. - SC....