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Wastage Norms
4.60
Wastage Norms
Maximum wastage or manufacturing loss on gold/silver/ platinum jewellery and articles thereof is as follows:
| Sl No | Items of export | Percentage of wastage by weight with reference to Gold/ Platinum / Silver content in export item | |
| Gold / platinum | Silver | ||
| a) | Plain jewellery, articles, and ornaments like Mangalsutra containing gold and black beads /imitation stones, cubic zirconia diamonds, precious, semi-precious stones. | 2.5 % | 3.2 % |
| b) | Studded jewellery and articles thereof | 5.0 % | 5.0 % |
| c) | Mountings and findings manufactured (by non- mechanised process) indigenously | 2.5 % | 3.2 % |
| d) | Any jewellery/ articles manufactured by a fully mechanised process and unstudded. | 0.9 % | 0.9 % |
| e) | Mountings, whether imported or indigenously procured/ manufactured, used in studded jewellery | 1.8 % | 1.8 % |
| f) | Gold / silver / platinum medallions and coins (excluding coins of nature of legal tender) | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| g) | Findings and mountings manufactured by mechanized process | 0.9% | 0.9% |