GST Council Change GST rates of handicraft items in 28th meeting|| GST rates have been recommended to be brought down for specified handicraft items ||28th GST council meeting press release

GST rates reduction  18% to 12%:-

• Handbags including pouches and purses; jewellery box
• Wooden frames for painting, photographs, mirrors etc
• Art ware of cork [including articles of sholapith]
• Stone art ware, stone inlay work
• Ornamental framed mirrors
• Glass statues [other than those of crystal]
• Glass art ware [ incl. pots, jars, votive, cask, cake cover, tulip bottle, vase ]
• Art ware of iron
• Art ware of brass, copper/ copper alloys, electro plated with nickel/silver
• Aluminium art ware
• Handcrafted lamps (including panchloga lamp)
• Worked vegetable or mineral carving, articles thereof, articles of wax, of searing, of natural gums or natural resins or of modelling pastes etc, (including articles  of lac, shellac)
• Ganjifa card

GST rates reduction  12% to 5%:-

• Handmade carpets and other handmade textile floor coverings (including namda/gabba)
• Handmade lace
• Hand-woven tapestries
• Hand-made braids and ornamental trimming in the piece
• Toran