Mysore Industrial Plastic Corporation vs Collector Of Customs on 5 January, 1983
6. Shri Krishnamoorthy contended that the imported C.A. Scrap could not be directly moulded but had to be first sorted, ground, granulated, plasticised and made into moulding powder. The Tribunal, in its order dated 5-1-1983 in Mysore Industrial Plastic Corporation v. Collector of Customs, Madras - 1983 (12) ELT 845, held that acrylic plastic sheet crushed scrap which could not be directly moulded did not fall under Item 15A(1) of Central Excise Tariff since it could not be deemed to be plastic material within the ambit of the said item. The position of C.A. Scrap was similar and deserved the same treatment. That scrap of plastic Article is not the same thing as plastic material was borne out by Central Excise Notification No. 23/73, dated 12-2-1973. It was also not an Article of plastics falling under Item 15A(2) Central Excise Tariff.