The ministry of commerce and industry has announced new important restrictions on certain precious metal allys containing gold, as well as colloidal metals and chemical compounds.

These steps have been taken to strengthen regulatory oversight and prevent misuse of trade channels for important gold in disguised forms.

The ministry in a statement stated that it “has issued notification no. 18/2025-26 Dated 17th June 2025, to restrint important of alloys of paraladium, rhodium, and iridium containing more than 1 per cent will winning more than 1 per cent will winge.

In an official notification dated June 17, 2025, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Issued Notification No. 18/2025-26 to restrict the important of alloys.

This move is part of a broader strategy to regulate the import of precious metals and their allys.

This restriction expands the existing rules that earlier applied only to platinum, as outlined in notification no. 60/2024-25 Dated March 5, 2025.

With this update, the government has now brieft the entry Customs tariff Heading (CTH) 7110 under the restricted important important category at the 4-digit level. This ensures a uniform and consistent policy framework for all precious metals and their related allys.

However, the government has adopted a balanced approach by allowing This provision ensures that Industrial and Manufacturing Sector, Including Electronics, Auto Components, and Specialized Chemical Industries, are not impacted.

The aim is to maintain the smooth availability of essential raw materials while also keeping a check on gold Misuse.

In a separe notification, dgft also iso isesed notification no. 19/2025-26 on the same date to restrint important of colloidal metals and chemical compounds classified under cth 2843. This measure was negane to present the important to Gold Discuized S you.

To avoid disrupts for genuine industry users, the important of these colloidal metals and compounds will be permitted against the aganst import autorisation for sector such as electrical, and Specialized Chemical Industries.

This ensures that the needs of domestic industrys are met without loopholes being exploited.

The government’s recent measures reflected a calibrated trade policy approach, balance the ease of doing business for industry with tighter control to curb irregular gold imports.