Commissioner Misclassifies Chewing Tobacco; Fails to Apply Trade Parlance Test, Ignores Packaging and Consumer Perception.

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....Classification of the goods manufactured by the appellants - chewing tobacco - the learned commissioner has erred in not resorting to the Trade Parlance Test in the facts of the present case by erroneously observing that as the product can be classified as per the contents, there is no need to resort to the parlance test. In Trade parlance i.e. from packaging and presentation, sales and distribution and till its consumption by the ultimate consumer the product in issue is known as chewing tobacco only. - the classification cannot be based on contents. - AT....