Supreme Court of India

Fedders Lloyd Corporation Ltd. v. Commissioner of Central Excise, Mumbai

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Reported as [2007] 12 S.C.R. 784
Bench Ashok Bhan J.
Decided 3 December 2007

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we have no reason to differ with the concurrent findings on facts recorded by the authorities below that the appellant was indeed manufacturing the split air-conditioners, as stated in the show cause notice.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Central Excise Act, 1944; S. 2(j)/Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985; Tariff Heading 84.14: Evasion of excise duty-Manufacturing process-Manufacturing of split air conditioner from condensing units manufactured by assessee and cooling units procured from market-Levy of excise duty-Held: Cooling units and condensing units after joining with pipe kits etc. fanction as air-conditioner unit-Which is commercially a new article, split air-conditioner and is different from its constituent units, thus, classifiable under Tariff Heading 84.15 of the Central Excise Tariff Act-R. 2(a) not attracted-Rules

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