TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2019 (8) TMI 253
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....985 is the subject matter of present dispute. The issue arising out of the present case is no more res integra in view of the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of the respondent itself, reported in 2015 (324) ELT 656 (SC). The Hon'ble Apex Court have held that in view of Chapter Note 4 appended to Chapter 26 of the Tariff Act, the process of roasting of ores into concentrate shall be considered as manufacture and thus, the benefit of duty exemption provided under Notification No.4/2006-C.E. should not be available. The relevant paragraphs in the said judgment are extracted herein below:- "26. Before we discuss these arguments and arrive at a particular conclusion, we would like to recapitulate the salient features o....
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....on the judgment of this Court in MMTC case. We have already analysed the decision in M/s. Hindustan Gas and Industries Ltd. case. The entire decision proceeds on the basis that roasting of an ore to obtain concentrate does not amount to manufacture specially when roasting is a process by which impurities in the ore are removed and the recoverable content of metal oxide is enhanced. In support, reference was made to Kirk-Othmer's Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. Likewise, in MMTC case as well, which was relied upon by the Tribunal, this Court had held that Wolfram Concentrate which was having minimum 65% Tungsten Oxide was still an ore and classifiable under Item 26. Thus, the decision in Hindustan Gas primarily rested on the reasoning t....
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....ufacture results in a different commodity from the earlier one. Section 2(f) defines this term as under : "manufacture" includes any process, - (i) incidental or ancillary to the completion of a manufactured product; (ii) which is specified in relation to any goods in the Section or Chapter notes of the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986) as amounting to manufacture; or (iii) which, in relation to the goods specified in the Third Schedule, involves packing or repacking of such goods in a unit container or labelling or re-labelling of containers including the declaration or alteration of retail sale price on it or adoption of any other treatment on the goods to render the prod....
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....has to govern itself in limited territory. On the basis of deeming fiction created by Note 4, once we arrive at the conclusion that process of roasting of Ore amounts to manufacture and it creates a different product known as Concentrate, for the purpose of exemption notification, which exempts only 'Ores' it is not possible to hold that Concentrate will still be covered by the exemption notification. Therefore, harmonious construction of Note 2 and Note 4 would lead us to hold that in those cases when Note 4 applies and Ores becomes a different product, it ceases to be Ores. 31. We, thus, are of the opinion that in the impugned judgment, the Tribunal has rightly arrived at the conclusion that by virtue of Note 4, concentrate has t....