M/S Gap International Sourcing (India) ... vs Cst, Delhi on 28 February, 2014
(i) Indo International Industries v. CST (supra); and (ii) Asian
Paints India Ltd. v. CCE (supra); the products in question are
known, bought and sold and commercially recognized as Eclairs
which is nothing but a boiled sugar confectionery; further, the
process of manufacture of the product and the various statutory
provisions under the PFA Act and the Rules also would show
that the product is nothing but a boiled sugar confectionery
only; the product in question does not have any of the
characters which would be present and attributable to a
chocolate and is not commercially known or bought and sold in
the market or dealt with or understood as white chocolate by
anybody; neither the wrappers nor the advertisements nor the
invoices refer to the products as white chocolate but as "sugar
boiled confectionery". As seen above, we note that HSN
Explanatory Notes of the Tariff do provide a definition for the
disputed 'White Chocolate'; Explanatory Notes under Heading
1704.90 - Others, go to specify that the Heading includes, inter
alia, -