- HC : Notification prescribing recovery of Clean-Environment-Cess in lieu of Statutory Procedure intra-vires; Upholds validity
- Tribunal : PepsiCo’s ‘Nimbooz’, ‘Slice’ and ‘Tropicana’ taxable as fruit drinks at 4%/5.5% KVAT, not 14%/14.5%
- SC : ‘Sharbat’ deriving identity from fruit content, is fruit drink; Applies common-parlance, essential-character test
- HC : Test report not invalid merely because samples tested in two labs; Upholds DRI seizure
- SC : Copy of SC-judgment quashing demand on 'Naphtha' predominantly used for fertilizer-production despite partial non-fertilizer use
Import tariff value of Gold increased marginally from USD 422/10 gms to USD 426/10 gms , while that of Silver increased marginally from USD 503 /kg to 512/kg; Tariff values of 9 other import items such as crude palm oil, RBD palm oil, and crude soya bean oil also revised
Notification No. 18/2019 Customs (N.T.) dated February 28, 2019
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