Annapurna Carbon Industries Co vs State Of Andhra Pradesh on 9 March, 1976
Shri Korde, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners, submitted that the findings of the authorities below that the components imported by the petitioners are liable to payment of countervailing duty is unsustainable. Shri Korde submitted that reliance on Item No. 34A of Central Excise Tariff to conclude that the petitioners are liable to payment of countervailing duty is entirely erroneous. Shri Korde, submitted that it was not in dispute before any of the authorities below that all the components imported by the petitioners had gone into assembly of diesel engines. It was also not in dispute that 89% of the diesel engines manufactured by the petitioners are used for stationary purposes and hardly 11% are used in dumpers. Shri Korde submitted that merely because negligible part of diesel engines are used in dumpers which are treated as motor vehicles, it is futile to suggest that the import of components which went into assembly of diesel engines, were imported as parts and accessories of motor vehicles. In support of the submission, learned Counsel relied upon the decision of one of us (Pendse, J.) reported in [1980(6) E. L. T. 557(Bom)] Kirloskar Cummins Ltd. V. N. K. Kapoor and Others and the decision of the Supreme Court M/s. Annapurna Carbon Industries Co. v. State of Andhra Pradesh.