Manufacturers from Surat cheer GST cut on jari threads

Jari manufacturers of Surat were a happy lot Wednesday after the GST Council’s decision to reduce the GST duty on jari threads from 12 per cent to 5 per cent. Elated members of the Surat Jari Manufacturers Association welcomed the decision and called on Union Minister of Textiles and Railways and Surat MP Darshana Jardosh for getting their demands fulfilled.

“Our profits had taken a hit due to the 12 per cent GST on jari. We are happy that the government has looked into our demands made through Union Minister Darshana Jardosh,” Surat Jari Manufacturers Association president Navin Jariwala said.

“For the reduction of the GST duties, we, along with the association members, had earlier made representations to late Union Minister Arun Jaitley, Santosh Gangwar and the GST Council. We made another representation a couple of months ago,” said Jardosh.

The GST rate cut was a long-standing demand of the Surat jari manufacturers since the introduction of GST in July 2017.