The Govt has fixed prices of masks (2ply, 3ply), Melt Blown non-Woven Fabric and hand sanitizers

The Central Government has fixed price of masks (2ply, 3ply), Melt Blown non-Woven Fabric and hand sanitizers up to 30th June 2020.

The prevailing price of   12.02.2020 is considered for masks (2ply, 3ply), Melt Blown non-Woven Fabric and hand sanitizers as a fixed price.
https://consumeraffairs.nic.in/sites/default/files/file-uploads/latestnews/Notification21mar2020.pdf

Import of Surgical Mask requires BIS and registration under Rule 27 of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodity) Rules, 2011

BIS  for Surgical Mask :

 i. BIS 14166: Respiratory protective devices : Full face masks

 ii. BIS IS 16289 : 2014 | MEDICAL TEXTILES SURGICAL FACE ...

 iii. BIS 9473 prescribes requirements and tests for filtering half masks intended to provide partial

Declaration of MRP on the surgical mask is governed under Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodity) Rules, 2011 

MRP of a unsold stock may be enhanced if there is a increase in the GST upto 30th September 2020

 MRP  declaration - Stamping or Putting sticker or Online printing

Declaration of the changed retail sale price (MRP) shall be made by
way of stamping or putting sticker or online printing, as the case may be, after complying
with the following conditions:

(i) The difference between the retail sale price originally printed on the package and the
revised price shall not, in any case, be higher than the extent of increase in the tax 1f any, or
in the case of imposition of fresh tax, such fresh tax, on account of implementation of GST
Act and Rules.

(ii) The original MRP shall continue to be displayed and the revised price shall not
overwrite on it.

How to inform the consumer about change in the MRP of the goods

 Manufacturers or packers or importers shall make at least two advertisements in one
or more newspapers in this regard and also by the circulation of notices to the dealers and to the
Director of Legal Metrology in the Central  Government and Controllers of Legal Metrology in
the States and Union Territories, indicating the change In the price of such packages.

Time period 

 It is also clarified that any packaging material or wrapper which could not be
exhausted by the manufacturer or packer or Importer prior to revision of GST, may be used
for packing of material up to  30th' September 2020 or till such date the packing material or
wrapper is exhausted, whichever is earlier after making corrections required in retail safe
price (MRP) on account of implementation of G.S.T. by way of stamping or putting sticker or
online printing, as the case may be.
  Source https://consumeraffairs.nic.in/sites/default/files/file-uploads/latestnews/LM_01042020.pdf

COVID19 ; NO Basic Custom Duty and Health Cess- Ventilators, Face Masks , surgical Masks, Personal protection equipment (PPE)

Now,  No Basic Customs Duty (BCD) and  Health Cess ,you can import Ventilators,  Face masks , surgical Masks and Personal protection equipment (PPE) into India without paying BCD & Health Cess.

http://cbic.gov.in/resources//htdocs-cbec/customs/cs-act/notifications/notfns-2020/cs-tarr2020/cs17-2020.pdf;jsessionid=A44C5F7123CAF89EF385E6CA4FE23993


[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION
3, SUB-SECTION (i)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification No. 20/2020– Customs
New Delhi dated the 9
th April, 2020
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs
Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) read with section 141 of Finance Act, 2020 (12 of 2020), the Central
Government on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the
goods of the description specified in column (3) of the Table below falling within the Chapter,
heading, sub-heading or tariff item of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act specified in
column (2) of the Table below, from whole of the duty of customs leviable thereon under the First
Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act and the whole of health cess leviable thereon under section
141 the said of Finance Act, 2020:
Table
2. This notification shall remain in force upto and inclusive of the 30th September, 2020.
 [F.No. 354/41/2020-TRU]
(Gaurav Singh)
 Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
S.No
.
Chapter or
Heading or
sub–heading
or tariff item
Description of goods
(1) (2) (3)
1. 9018 or 9019 Artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus (Ventilators)
2. 63 or any
chapter
Face masks and surgical Masks
3. 62 or any
chapter
Personal protection equipment (PPE)
4. 30, 38 or any
chapter
Covid-19 testing kits
5. Any Chapter Inputs for manufacture of items at S. Nos. 1 to 4 above,subject to the condition
that the importer follows the procedure set out in the Customs (Import of
Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty) Rules, 2017.