Supreme Court of India

Hewlett Packard India Sales Pvt. Ltd. (now Hp India Sales Pvt. Ltd.) v. Commissioner of Customs (import), Nhava Sheva

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Reported as [2023] 1 S.C.R. 1123
Bench Surya Kant and Vikram Nath JJ.
Decided 17 January 2023

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Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 – Central Excise Act, 1944 – ss.4A and 4 – Appellants imported certain units of the ‘All-in-one integrated Desktop computer’ and classified them under ‘ Tariff Item 8471 50 00’ as per the prevalent self-assessment procedure – During subsequent examination by the Custom Authorities, th e concerned goods were classified under ‘Tariff Item 8471 30 10 ’, and this classification was confirmed by various Adjudicating uthorities – Adjudicating Authorities held that the concerned go ods were portable and were thus correctly classified under ‘Tariff Item 8471 30 10’ –

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