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Welspun Zucchi Textiles Ltd. v ACIT [ITA No 6539 (MUM.) OF 2009 & 898 (Mum.) of 2010] dtd 11.1.2013 Background: During the year under consideration, the assessee company had exported bathrobes to its associated enterprises in Italy. The said transactions were benchmarked by the assessee using CUP method as the most appropriate method. In order to determine the arms length price of these transactions, a reference was made by the AO to the TPO u/s 92CA(1) of the Act. Before the TPO, the assessee submitted the comparative chart of sales to AEs and non AEs. It was submitted that out of the total bathrobes exported to non AEs, about 95% bathrobes were exported to Wallmart USA at an average unit price of US Dollars 6.42 while the average unit price of export made by the assessee to its AEs in Italy was US Dollars 8.80. It was contended that since the price charged to AEs was more than the price charged to non AEs, the international transactions with AEs involving export of bathrobes should be considered at arms length.

CUP method fails where there are differences in location, market size and product prices sold ...