{"id":225070,"date":"2004-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/german-remedies-ltd-vs-commissioner-of-central-excise-on-19-may-2004-3"},"modified":"2018-04-25T02:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T21:16:43","slug":"german-remedies-ltd-vs-commissioner-of-central-excise-on-19-may-2004-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/german-remedies-ltd-vs-commissioner-of-central-excise-on-19-may-2004-3","title":{"rendered":"German Remedies Ltd. vs Commissioner Of Central Excise on 19 May, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal &#8211; Mumbai<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">German Remedies Ltd. vs Commissioner Of Central Excise on 19 May, 2004<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2004 (97) ECC 74<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: J Balasundaram, A M Moheb<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>Jyoti Balasundarum, Member (J)<\/p>\n<p>1. The applications for waiver of pre-deposit of duty and penalty arise out of the common impugned order passed by the Commissioner of Central Excise (Appeals). The duty demand covered by Appeal No. E\/771 \/04 in Rs. 90,38,273 and the penalty is Rs. 50,00,000; the duty demand in the other Appeal viz. E\/772\/04 is Rs. 1,84,61,518 and the penalty is Rs. 92 lakhs.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The demands arise as a result of holding that process of pasting stickers on 3 products viz. Ultravist, Magnevist and Actylyse imported by the applicants herein amounts to manufacture by virtue of Note 5 to Chapter 30 of the Central Excise Tariff Act which stipulates that<br \/>\n &#8220;in relation to products of Heading No. 30.03,&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; labelling or relabelling of containers intended to consumers and repacking from bulk packs to retail packs &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;shall amount to manufacture&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. We have heard both sides. We find that the same issue was the subject matter in the earlier decision of the Tribunal in favour of assessees viz. those in the case of<\/p>\n<p>(a)   German Remedies ltd. v. CCE, 2003 (89) ECC 314 (Tri),<\/p>\n<p>(b)   Borough Wellcome (I) Ltd. v. CCE, 2003 (57) RLT 697, and<\/p>\n<p>(c)   CCE v. Avon Beauty Products (I) Ltd., 2002 (53) RLT 917 which was upheld by the Apex Court in Civil Appeal No. D25147\/2002 dated 13.3.2003.\n<\/p>\n<p>There is also a recent order of the Tribunal in the case of CCE, Mumbai v. L&#8217;Oreal India Ltd. (Final Order No. A\/217\/WZB\/2004. C.I. dated 7.1.04), on the issue. In the light of these decisions, we hold that a strong prima facie case for waiver has been made out and therefore, we waive the requirement of pre-deposit of duty and penalty in each case and stay recovery thereof pending the appeals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal &#8211; Mumbai German Remedies Ltd. vs Commissioner Of Central Excise on 19 May, 2004 Equivalent citations: 2004 (97) ECC 74 Bench: J Balasundaram, A M Moheb ORDER Jyoti Balasundarum, Member (J) 1. The applications for waiver of pre-deposit of duty and penalty arise out of the common impugned order passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>German Remedies Ltd. vs Commissioner Of Central Excise on 19 May, 2004 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/german-remedies-ltd-vs-commissioner-of-central-excise-on-19-may-2004-3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"German Remedies Ltd. vs Commissioner Of Central Excise on 19 May, 2004 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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