- 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 remained the same at USD 580/10 grams while that of silver increased from USD 609/ kilogram to USD 717/ kilogram; Tariff values of 10 other import items such as crude palm oil, RBD palm oil, and crude soya bean oil also revised
Notification No. 60/2020-Customs (N.T.) dated July 23, 2020
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