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20. Now. I take up the main issue of suppression of production of zinc oxide to the tune of 1545.047 MT worked out by the department on the basis of minimum contents of Zinc in the raw material used for the production as admitted by Shri Ramesh Kumar Agarwal. Director in his statement tendered under Section 14 of the Central Excise Act, 1944. The department has contended that the assessees were manufacturing zinc oxide from Zinc dross, Zinc scrap, zinc ingots etc. These raw materials either were imported or purchased from local market. The imported raw material viz. zinc dross/zinc scrap were described in Bill of entry as 'Seal' or 'Scribe' or 'Scrub'. The 'Seal, 'Scribe' and 'Scrub' codes have been provided in ISRI (Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries) which reads as under: