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Seeks to prescribe concessional IGST rate on specified handicraft items, to give effect to the recommendations of the GST Council in it’s 28th meeting held on 21.07.2018

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
Notification No. 22/2018 -Integrated Tax (Rate)

New Delhi, the 26th July, 2018

 

G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, on the recommendations of the Council, hereby exempts the inter-state supplies of handicraft goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under the tariff item, sub-heading, heading or Chapter, as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), from so much integrated tax leviable thereon under section 5 of the Integrated Goods and Service Tax, 2017 (13 of 2017) as is in excess of the rate specified in column (4) of the said Table,

Explanation – For the purpose of this notification, the expression “handicraft goods” means “Goods predominantly made by hand even though some tools or machinery may also have been used in the process; such goods are graced with visual appeal in the nature of ornamentation or in-lay work or some similar work of a substantial nature; possess distinctive features, which can be aesthetic, artistic, ethnic or culturally attached and are amply different from mechanically produced goods of similar utility”

S.No.

Chapter, Healing, Subheading or Tariff item Description of Goods

Rate

(1)

(2) (3)

(4)

1. 

3406

Handcrafted candles

12 %

2.

4202 22, 4202 29, 4202 3110, 4202 3190,4202 32, 4202 39

Handbags     including       pouches          and purses; jewel I ery box

12%

3.  4416, 4421 99 90 Carved  wood products,  art ware/decorative        articles       of  wood (including     inlay work,        casks,                       barrel, vats) 12 clo
4. 4414 00 00 Wooden frames  for painting,photographs, mirrors etc 12 %
5. 4420 Statuettes & other ornaments of wood, wood marquetry & inlaid, jewellery box, wood lathe and lacquer work [including lathe and lacquer work, ambadi sisal craft] 12 %
6. 4503 90 90
4504 90
Art ware of cork [including articles of sholapith] 12 %
7. 4601 and 4602 Mats, matting and screens of vegetable material, basketwork, wickerwork and other articles of vegetable materials or other plaiting material, articles of loofah (including of bamboo, rattan, canes and other natural fibres, dry flowers (naturally dried), articles thereof, ringal, raambaan article, shola items, Kouna/chumthang (water reeds) crafts, articles of Water hyacinth, korai mat] 5%
         8.

4823

Articles made of paper mache

5 %

9.

5607, 5609

Coir articles

5 %

10

5609 00 20,

 5609 00 90

Toran, Doorway Decoration made from cotton yarn or woollen yarn and aabhala (mirror) with or without hanging flaps

5%

      11   

57

Handmade carpets and other handmade textile floor coverings (including namda/gabba)

5%

12.

5804 30 00

Handmade lace

5 %

13.

5805

Hand-woven tapestries

5 %

14.

5808 10

Hand-made        braids       and           ornamental

trimming in the piece

5 %

15

5810

Hand embroidered articles

5 %

16

6117, 6214

Handmade/hand embroidered shawls of sale value not exceeding Rs. 1000 per piece

5 %

17

6117, 6214

Handmade/hand embroidered shawls of
sale value exceeding Rs. 1000 per piece

12 %

  18.

6802

Carved stone products (e.g., statues, statuettes, figures of animals, writing sets, ashtray, candle stand)

12%

   19.

6815 99 90

Stone art ware, stone inlay work

12 %

     20.

6912 00 10
6912 00 20

Tableware and kitchenware of clay and terracotta, other clay articles

12%

     21

6913 90 00

Statuettes & other ornamental ceramic articles (incl blue potteries)

12 %

     22

7009 92 00

Ornamental framed mirrors

12 %

     23

7018 10

Bangles, beads and small ware

5 %

     24.

7018 90 10

Glass      statues       [other      than those      of

crystal]

12 %

    25.

7020 00 90

Glass art ware [ incl. pots, jars, votive, cask, cake cover, tulip bottle, vase ]

12 %