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SME Times News Bureau | 02 Feb, 2021
The Gem Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) on
Monday welcomed Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's visionary
budget over reduction of customs duty on raw materials such as gold,
silver and platinum to boost jewellery exports.
The import duty
on gold and silver has been reduced from 12.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent
while import duty on platinum, pallidum etc has been reduced from 12.5
per cent to 10 per cent. The import duty on silver dore bar has been
reduced from 11 per cent to 6.1 per cent.
The import duty on gold/silver findings has been cut from 20 per cent to 10 per cent.
The
import duty on spent catalyst or ash containing precious metals has
been cut from 11.85 per cent to 9.2 per cent. Precious metal coins duty
has been cut from 12.5 per cent to 10 per cent.
GJEPC Chairman
Colin Shah said, "We sincerely thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for this bold and pragmatic
growth-oriented budget."
The reduction in import duty from 12.5
per cent to 7.5 per cent will help gem and jewellery exports become
globally competitive. The reduction in duty on raw materials will give
the much-needed boost to the sector and help it to move to the next
level.
High customs duty on precious metals had made exports
uncompetitive leading to the large Indian diaspora/Non-Resident Indians
moving to Dubai, Hong Kong or other centres to buy jewellery which was
impacting employment as well as business in India. Along with this, the
decrease of import duty on jewellery findings to 10 per cent will help
the jewellery manufacturer exporters in a big way.
"Another
relief for the industry was the clarification on Equalisation Levy. What
we understand from the budget is that Online Equalisation Levy of 2 per
cent is now not applicable on Business-to-business (B2B) purchases from
International Diamond Auctions. This will help our manufacturers of
diamonds to buy directly from miners. Sincere thanks to Union Finance
Minister for this relief," Colin Shah added.
Sitharaman has also
announced setting up of a new Securities and Exchange Board of India
(SEBI) regulated gold exchange. The Union Finance Minister also
announced that SEBI would be notified as the capital markets watchdog as
regulator for gold exchanges.
"We welcome the move as this will ease marketability and sale of gold," Colin said.
Thanking
PM Narendra Modi and FM Sitharaman for coming out with a visionary
budget, GJEPC Vice-Chairman Vipul Shah said, "The Union Finance Minister
has done a remarkable job by presenting a bold budget in these
difficult times. The budget focused on investments in the infrastructure
sector, consolidation of regulations, implementing digitisation in
several sectors and reducing regulatory forbearance. There were also
various measures to improve consumption."
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