Note: Under Section. 100(1) of the Uttarakhand Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, an appeal against this ruling lies before the appellate authority for advance ruling constituted under section- 99 of the Uttarakhand Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, within a period of 30 days from the date of service of this order.

RULING

1. This is an application under Sub-Section (1) of Section 97 of the CGST / SGST Act, 2017 (herein after to be referred as “Act”) and the rules made thereunder filed by M/s Mahalaxmi Polypack Pvt. Ltd., Plot No. 3 A,B,C,D, Sector-9, IIE, SIDCUL, Pant Nagar, U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand – 263153, seeking an advance ruling on the question :

“Q.1 Identification of correct classification of Poly Propylene Leno Bags among heading no. 63063300 and 39232990.

Q.2 Identification of rate of duty applicable as per respective HSN of Poly Propylene Leno Bags.

2. Advance Ruling under GST means a decision provided by the authority or the appellate authority to an applicant on matters or on questions specified in sub section (2) of section 97 or sub section (1) of section 100 in relation to the supply of goods or services or both being undertaken or proposed to be undertaken by the applicant.

3. As per the said subsection (2) of Section 97 of the Act ibid advance ruling can be sought by an applicant in respect of:

(a) Classification of any goods or services or both

(b) Applicability of a notification issued under the provisions of this Act,

(c) Determination of time and value of supply of goods or services or both,

(d) Admissibility of input tax credit of tax paid or deemed to have been paid

(e) Determination of the liability to pay tax on any goods or services or both

(f) Whether the applicant is required to be registered

(g) Whether any particular thing done by the applicant with respect to any goods or services or both amounts to or results in a supply of goods or services or both within the meaning of that term

In the present case, applicant has sought advance ruling in respect of leviability of GST, if any, on the

(a) Identification of correct classification of Poly Propylene Leno Bags among heading no. 63063300 and 39232990.

(b) Identification of rate of duty applicable as per respective HSN of Poly Propylene Leno Bags.

Therefore, with the instant application seeking classification of goods and determination of the liability to pay tax on such goods, in terms of Section 97(2)(a) & (e) of CGST/SGST Act, 2017, the present application is hereby admitted.

4. Accordingly opportunity of personal hearing was granted to the applicant on 27- 12-2018. Shri Deepak Kumar Vishnoi C/o -LASA Consultancy appeared for personal hearing on the said date and submitted documents describing therein exact nature of work being undertaken and on question, he replied that ruling may be given in respect of PP Leno Bags without actually testing it. Due to some unavoidable circumstances member of the Authority form the state could not be present in the hearing, therefore dated 02-01-2019 was again fixed for personal hearing. Applicant did not appear on 02-01-2019 but sent an Email stating that they have nothing to add further and whatever they have submitted before may be considered for pronouncing Advance Ruling.

5. In the present application, applicant has requested for advance ruling on:

(a) Identification of correct classification of Poly Propylene Leno Bags among heading no. 63063300 and 39232990.

(b) Identification of rate of duty applicable as per respective HSN of Poly Propylene Leno Bags.

However, the applicant in their application has not questioned of the testing of specimen sample whether it is Poly Propylene Leno Bags or not. Hence, we are of the opinion that the subject sample given by the applicant is ‘Poly Propylene Leno Bags’ and accordingly, we proceed for the classification and leviability of tax on supply of the said ‘Poly Propylene Leno Bags’ by the applicant in the State of Uttarakhand.

5.1. As per “Introduction to GST Tariff”, Customs Tariff is adopted for classification of the goods that are not classified anywhere in GST tariff. To avoid classification disputes, notifications issued by Government indicate that Customs Tariff has been adopted for descriptive classification of goods under GST. The Section Notes, Chapter Notes and Rules of interpretation of Customs Tariff have also been adopted.

Accordingly, on going through the Customs Tariff, we observe that the subject goods i.e. ‘Poly Propylene Leno Bags’ is classified under HS Code 3923 of the Customs Tariff and the relevant portion of the HS Code 3923 is reproduced as under :

5.2.Further, to determine the rate of GST leviability on the supply of “Poly Propylene Leno Bags’, we go through the corresponding HS Code 3923 of the GST Tariff and the relevant portion of the HS Code 3923 given under Chapter 39 “Plastics and articles thereof’ of the GST tariff is reproduced as under –

Thus, we observe that the ‘Poly Propylene Leno Bags’ is classified under HS Code 3923 of the Customs Tariff and, as per relevant chapter note of GST tariff, the tax is leviable @ 18% on supply of the subject goods i.e. ‘Poly Propylene Leno Bags’.

5.3. Furthermore, on going through the advance ruling passed by the Odisha Authority for Advance Ruling vide Order No. 05/ODISHA-AAR/2018-19 dated 16.11.2018, relied upon the advance ruling passed by West Bengal Appellate Authority in department’s favour arising out of Order No. 09/WBAAR/2018-19 dated 06.07.2018 in the case of “Mega Flex Plastics Ltd.”, we concur with the findings of the ruling that the item “Polypropylene Leno Bags (PP Leno Bags) will be classified under GST Tariff Heading ‘39232990’.

Further, as per the existing CBEC Revised Duty Drawback rates schedule applicable w.e.f.01.10.2017, “polypropylene woven fabric/ bags/ sacks, whether or not laminated, with or without U. V. stabilization, with or without liners/fasteners” are specifically classified under drawback chapter 39 under Tariff Item 392302. The item under consideration being woven bags of polypropylene therefore merits classification under this Chapter as it stands today without any ambiguity.

RULING

In view of the above, on the issue of identification of classification and rate of tax leviable on the supply of ‘Poly Propylene Leno Bags’ as per application filed by the applicant, we find that the subject goods i.e. ‘Poly Propylene Leno Bags’ falls under HSN 3923 of the GST Tariff and therefore, supply of ‘Poly Propylene Leno Bags’, would be chargeable to GST @18% [CGST @ 9% and SGST @ 9%].