Court Rules Repacking Duty-Paid Cigarettes Not Manufacturing Under Central Excise Laws; No Additional Duty Imposed.

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....Process amounting to manufacture or not - duty paid cigarettes - affixing brand name, repacked in new pack - In the case in hand, it is an admitted fact on record that excepting the process of masking and putting code number, the appellant had not undertaken any other activity to render the resultant product marketable. Thus, it cannot be said that there was involvement of labeling or relabeling of containers. The appellant in this case, had repacked the bought-out cigarettes from one retail pack to another retail pack before it was coded. Such activity also will not be covered under the purview of Chapter Note 3 (supra) inasmuch as there was no repacking from bulk pack to retail pack. - AT....