Issues relating to changes in the excise duty structure on textiles and textile articles, as pointed out by the trade and the field formations-reg.

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..... tions-reg. The undersigned is directed to state that subsequent to Budget 2004 announcements, a number of representations/ references have been received from the trade as well as from the field formations pertaining to the changes made in the excise duty structure on Textiles and Textile Articles. The point raised and the clarifications thereon are as follows. Issue No. (1): Can a manufactur .....

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..... credit. Can he avail full exemption under notification no. 30/2004-CE on finished goods which was in stock or are manufactured subsequently from such inputs? Clarification: If the manufacturer had not taken any credit on his pre-budget stock of inputs, he can clear the finished products without payment of duty under notification no. 30/2004-CE dated 09.07.2004. However, for manufacturers who h .....

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..... anufacture) had taken registration as 'said person' under the said Rule 12B. Such persons can not be considered 'manufacturers' and their registered premises can not be considered as 'factory'. Some of such persons have credit balance in their account, have inputs on which such credit is taken, and have stock of finished goods received from job workers. Some of the inputs are with their job worker .....

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..... everse the credit on the pre-budget stock of inputs, he may be allowed to make payment of duty, whereupon the goods can be cleared from his registered premises, or from the premises of the job worker, whether for domestic clearance or for export (under ARE-1 procedure). In either case, no duty is to be paid by the job worker and duty liability, if any, would be on the trader (i.e. the registered p .....

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