1986 (7) TMI 107

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.... Act and is engaged in the manufacture of cold rolled high carbon and alloy steel and special steel strips in India. The petitioners have set up a factory at Navsari where hot rolled strips in coil form are cold rolled to final gauges as required by the customers. Under the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 hot rolled stainless steel strips fall under Tariff Item 73.15(2) and the standard rate of duty is 3....

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....t the coils are of 920 mm width as claimed, and furnish bond with bank guarantee for production of end use proof. The petitioners thereupon filed the present petition on August 31, 1982, and by an interim order the goods were cleared on the basis that the exemption granted under the notification is available. The Deputy Collector of Customs, Bombay, subsequently passed the adjudication order dated....

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....curing benefit under the notifications were (a) hot rolled stainless steel coils must have width exceeding 500 mm, and (b) the import is for the purpose of cold rolling. Shri Joshi submits that in the present case both the conditions were satisfied, and therefore, the benefit must be given to the petitioners. The submission of the learned Counsel is correct and deserves acceptance. It is not in di....

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.... case where the importer imports the coils of 1100 mm and thereafter slits it into two parts of 600 mm and 500 mm. for the purpose of cold rolling. It is difficult to understand how such slitting would debar the importer from claiming the benefit of the notification. Once it is established that at the time of import the coils were of more than 500 mm and the coils were ultimately used for the purp....