Court Overturns Decision on CVD Valuation; Re-labeling After Import Not Manufacturing for Retail Price Basis.

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....Valuation for levy of CVD - re-labelling of the specified goods after import - As re-labelling of the specified goods would amount to manufacture after import, it is not that recourse was unavailable to remedy any breach of parity. The adoption of ‘retail selling price’ of other re-sellers and, that too, while the impugned goods were yet to be cleared for home consumption on the presumption that the importer intended to enhance the ‘retail selling price’ at the point of sale appears to be a mis-direction on the part of the original authority and the confirmation thereof, by the first appellate authority, bears the same taint as to warrant the setting aside of the impugned order. - AT....