Area based exemption eligible on manufacture of nail enamel by using peripheral processes

G.S. Pharmabutors Pvt. Ltd. Vs Additional Director General (CESTAT Delhi) There is no dispute that the appellant had undertaken the peripheral processes. Whether any other process or processes, apart from peripheral processes, had been undertaken by the appellant so as to amount to manufacture contemplated in section 2(f) of the Excise Act would have to be examined. The adoption of any other treatment on the goods to render the product marketable to the consumer is one of the requirement set out under section 2(f) of the Excise Act for the process to result in manufacture. Thus, what has to be...