Supreme Court of India

Sandoz Private Limited v. Union of India & Others

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Reported as [2022] 2 S.C.R. 601
Bench A. M. Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Krishna Murari JJ.
Decided 4 January 2022

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the EOU entities, who had procured and imported specified goods from DTA supplier, are entitled to do so without payment of duty [as in para 6.2(b)] having been ab initio exempted from such liability under para 6.11(c)(ii) of the FT P, being deemed exports.

Judgment, page 45

From the headnote

Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992: FTP 2009-2014 – Chapter 6 and 8 – Claim for refund of TED p aid by DTA unit on goods supplied by DTA unit to EOU unit for manufacturing goods cleared for export – Held: If the refund claim is by the EOU, the same needs to be processed by the authorities under the FTP by reckoning the entitlement of DTA supplier specified in Chapter 8 of the FTP concerning the goods supplied to it , being a case of deemed exports – The EOU on its own, howev er, is not entitled for refund of TED, as the mandate to EOU is to proc ure or import goods from DTA

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