Collector Of Customs vs Shrishma Fine Chemicals & … on 17 December 1996

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Supreme Court of India
Collector Of Customs vs Shrishma Fine Chemicals & … on 17 December, 1996
Equivalent citations: 1997(89)ELT451(SC), (1997)10SCC248, AIRONLINE 1996 SC 499, 1997 (10) SCC 248, (1997) 89 ELT 451, (1997) 68 ECR 749, (1993) 114 TAXATION 450, (1993) 200 ITR 611
Bench: S.P. Bharucha, S.C. Sen
ORDER
S.P. Bharucha and S.C. Sen, JJ.

1. The respondents imported Phenol USP Grade and claimed the benefit of an exemption notification issued under the provisions of Section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962. The exemption therein applied, inter alia, to “pharmaceutical chemicals, i.e., chemicals having prophylatic or therapeutic value and used solely or predominantly as drugs, not elsewhere specified”. The Tribunal, having regard to the material before it, came to the conclusion that Phenol USP fell within the pharmaceutical chemicals described in the notification as aforesaid. We are in no doubt that the Tribunal was right in doing so.

2. The appeals are dismissed, with no order as to costs.

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