M/S STAR INDUSTRIES vs. COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS(IMPORTS) RAIGAD
C.A. No.-006088-006088 - 2013Supreme Court07 Oct 2015
Section 108Section 110Section 111Section 3(1)
…of impurities from a mined product was not treated as manufacturing process. On that basis, the Tribunal came to the conclusion that roasting of an ore, to obtain concentrate, does not amount to manufacture, as it only removed the impurities and the 2 (1972) 2 SCC 620 Civil Appeal No. 6088 of 2013 Page 13 of 32 Page 14 JUDGMENT recoverable content of metal oxide is enhanced thereby. Thus, ore and concentrate are one and the same as concentrate remains ore and only impurities were removed therefrom. Again, referring to the judgment of this Court in MMTC (supra), the Tribunal made the following obser…