Exemption for Jewellery Parts from Countervailing Duty Effective July 26, 2016; Legislative Decision Required for Duty Exemptions.

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....Exemption from countervailing duty [CVD] - there is no manner of doubt that it is only w.e.f. 26.07.2016 that parts of articles of jewellery have been included in the CVD exemption notification. It cannot be urged that the amendment made in entry no. 199 on 26.12.2016 is clarificatory in nature - It is for the legislature, in its wisdom, to grant exemption from payment of CVD or SAD and an assessee cannot be permitted to urge that if articles of jewellery have been granted the benefit of exemption from payment of CVD or SAD, the benefit of such exemption should necessarily flow to ‘parts of articles of jewellery’ also. - AT....