Melamine Utensils: Classify Based on Common Meaning for VAT and Sales Tax, Not Scientific Definitions.

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....Classification of goods - melamine utensils, i.e., plates, bowls, spoons and dinner sets, etc. - The word “appliances” being word of day-to-day use, its popular or commercial parlance meaning has to be adopted as against its scientific or technical meaning because of the well-settled principle of interpretation that in taxing statutes, words of everyday use must be construed not in the scientific or technical sense but as understood in common parlance. - HC....