2003 (3) TMI 111

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....ustoms, Excise and Gold (Control) Appellate Tribunal, West Regional Bench at Mumbai. 2. Facts briefly stated are that the respondent filed a Bill of Entry in respect of ship M.V. Olinda imported by them for purposes of breaking. The respondent showed the light displacement tonnage (LDT) as 7009 metric tons. This declaration was not accepted by the Superintendent of Customs and Central Excise. T....

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.... impugned order. CEGAT negatived a contention that the appeal was not maintainable before them on the basis that the Superintendent's order is nothing more than a communication of the order passed by the Collector (Appeals). CEGAT held that the appeal was in fact against the Collector's order. 4. In our view, the reasoning of CEGAT cannot be sustained. The decision taken by the Collector was no....