{"id":89087,"date":"2005-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-customs-vs-chennai-gases-pvt-ltd-on-15-december-2005"},"modified":"2016-06-02T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T04:10:52","slug":"commissioner-of-customs-vs-chennai-gases-pvt-ltd-on-15-december-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-customs-vs-chennai-gases-pvt-ltd-on-15-december-2005","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Of Customs vs Chennai Gases Pvt. Ltd. on 15 December, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"
Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal – Tamil Nadu<\/div>\n
Commissioner Of Customs vs Chennai Gases Pvt. Ltd. on 15 December, 2005<\/div>\n
Equivalent citations: 2006 (105) ECC 110, 2006 ECR 110 Tri Chennai, 2006 (199) ELT 71 Tri Chennai<\/div>\n
Bench: P Chacko<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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ORDER<\/p>\n
P.G. Chacko, Member (J)<\/p>\n
Page 0111<\/p>\n
1. After examining the records and hearing both sides, I am of the view that the appeal itself requires to be finally disposed of at this stage. Accordingly, after rejecting the Revenue’s application for stay of operation of the impugned order, I proceed to deal with the appeal.\n<\/p>\n
2. The assessee (respondent) had imported a consignment of ‘Calcium Carbide’ and obtained clearance thereof under Bill of Entry dated 03.05.1999 on payment of duties of Customs including anti-dumping duty. The above import was from China and antidumping duty was leviable on imports from China at the rate of Rs. 499\/- per tonne under the relevant Notification. The importer could not produce the Certificate of Origin of the goods. Imports of like goods from Korea, during those days, were chargeable to anti-dumping duty at the rate of Rs. 873 per tonne. In the absence of the above certificate, the Customs authorities levied anti-dumping duty on the subject goods at the ” Korean rate”. Later on, the assessee obtained the Certificate of Origin of the goods (indicating China as the Country of Origin) and on its strength filed an application for refund of the excess anti-dumping duty paid by them. This refund claim was rejected by the original authority on the ground of unjust enrichment. In an appeal preferred against the order of that authority, the assessee obtained a remand order from the Commissioner (Appeals), which directed the original authority to pass a fresh order after due verification of documents, to ascertain whether the refund claim was Page 0112 hit by unjust enrichment. Acting upon the remand order of the appellate authority, the original authority passed a fresh order holding, after verification of documents, that the refund claim was barred by unjust enrichment. Accordingly, the anti-dumping duty amount (Rs. 26,395\/-) was credited to the Consumer Welfare Fund. Aggrieved, the assessee again approached the Commissioner (Appeals) and the latter accepted their contention that the principle of unjust enrichment was not applicable to their claim for refund of anti-dumping duty. Thus, they obtained a favourable order sanctioning cash refund of duty. Hence the present appeal of the Revenue, wherein the chief ground of challenge against the impugned order is that the provisions of Section 27 of the Customs Act were applicable to the subject claim for refund of antidumping duty in view of the amendments brought to Section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act by the Finance Act, 2000. The appellant has also claimed support from the Supreme Court’s judgment in Mafatlal Industries Ltd. v. Union of India<\/a> 1007 (89) E.L.T. 247 (S.C.), wherein it was, inter alia, observed by their Lordships that the law of unjust enrichment in India would apply not only to tax refund claims but also to money claims of all hues and shades against the State where the claimant might have compensated himself from some other source.\n<\/p>\n
3. Ld. SDR reiterates the above grounds. Ld. Consultant for the assessee submits that Sub-section 8 of Section 9 A of the Customs Tariff Act, which made the relevant provisions of the Customs Act applicable to refund of anti-dumping duty, was inserted in the statute book with effect from 12.05.2000 (date, on which the Finance Act, 2000 came into force) only and has no retrospective effect. These provisions cannot be applied to a claim for refund of anti-dumping duty paid on 03.05.1999. Ld. Consultant has relied on the Tribunal’s Larger Bench decision in Caprihans India Ltd. v. Collector of Customs, Bombay , wherein, in relation to a period prior to 12.05.2000, the Bench held that Section 27 of the Customs Act was not applicable to a claim of refund of anti-dumping duty and, accordingly, ruled out applicability of the doctrine of unjust enrichment to such a claim. In her rejoinder, ld. SDR refers to the Supreme Court’s judgment in National Engineering Industries v. Commissioner of Central Excise, Jaipur 2005 (188) E.LT. 471 (S.C.), wherein it was held, on the facts of that case, that the question of grant of refund of Central Excise Duty arose only after the Tribunal’s decision on the duty liability of the claimant.\n<\/p>\n
4. After giving careful consideration to the submissions, I find that the refund claim in question was filed in October, 2000 on the strength of the “Certificate of Country of Origin” which certified that the goods had originated from China. The certificate was straightaway accepted by the Page 0113 original authority and it was held that the assessee was eligible for refund of the excess amount of anti-dumping duty. No dispute arose, at any stage, as to whether such amount was refundable or not. The only dispute between the assessee and the Department was whether the refund claim was hit by the bar of unjust enrichment. In view of this position, I have to reject at the outset, the reliance placed by ld. SDR on the apex Court’s judgment in National Engineering Industries (supra). In that case, there was an order of the Tribunal on the question whether any amount of duty of excise was liable to be demanded from the claimant and the Tribunal had found that the claimant was eligible for the benefit of an exemption Notification and hence not liable to pay duty. It was that order of the Tribunal which afforded a cause of action for the assessee to claim refund of the duty already paid. Such a factual situation is not forthcoming in the present case.\n<\/p>\n
5. Ld. SDR has submitted that, in the first round of litigation, ld. Commissioner (Appeals) had remanded the case to the lower authority after taking the view that the doctrine of unjust enrichment was applicable to the refund claim in question. It has also been pointed out that the assessee had no grievance against such remand order and hence it is not open to them, now, to plead that the doctrine of unjust enrichment is not applicable. It is noticed that, in the second round of litigation, the plea was taken by the assessee that the above doctrine was not applicable to their refund claim. That was a legal plea, which could be so taken. Thus, the dispute has reached the Tribunal as to whether the assessee’s claim for refund of anti-dumping duty paid long before 12.05.2000 is hit by the bar of unjust enrichment. At this late point of time, I think, it is not open to the Revenue to contend to the effect that the said issue does not survive. This context takes me to the Larger Bench decision. In the case of Caprihans India Ltd., one of the issues considered by Larger Bench was whether an amount of anti-dumping duty paid in excess was refundable to the assessee, unaffected by the doctrine of unjust enrichment. The amount of anti-dumping duty had been paid long before 12.05.2000. The Larger Bench held, after considering the provisions of Section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act, as they stood prior to 12.05.2000, that the provision of Section 27 of the Customs Act was not applicable to the refund claim. It was, further, clarified that the doctrine of unjust enrichment was not applicable. The respondent’s case is supported by the Larger Bench decision in the case of Caprihans India Ltd. (supra).\n<\/p>\n
6. In the result, the impugned order allowing cash refund of excess anti-dumping duty to the respondents gets sustained and this appeal is dismissed.\n<\/p>\n
(Dictated and pronounced in open Court)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal – Tamil Nadu Commissioner Of Customs vs Chennai Gases Pvt. Ltd. on 15 December, 2005 Equivalent citations: 2006 (105) ECC 110, 2006 ECR 110 Tri Chennai, 2006 (199) ELT 71 Tri Chennai Bench: P Chacko ORDER P.G. Chacko, Member (J) Page 0111 1. After examining the records and hearing both […]<\/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-89087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"\nCommissioner Of Customs vs Chennai Gases Pvt. 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