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Fresh directives on packaged commodities give relief to hosiery makers

Faced with a lot of harassment from authorities for two decades even for minor inadvertent mistakes made on packets when products are sold as ‘packaged commodities’, hosiery manufacturers can now expect some relief. Following repeated representations of hosiery manufacturers, the Director of Legal Metrology at the Centre has now issued fresh directions on the issue. The new directive issued to Controllers of legal Metrology in states has asked them to make field level officers understand the differences in circumstances when certain goods were packaged in bunch like hosiery products and sold piece-wise in retail vis-à-vis general packaged goods like edible items which cannot be opened and act accordingly while imposing penalties.

Commenting on the move, South India Hosiery Manufacturers Association joint secretary R Damodaran said this has come as a big relief at a time when manufacturers have been asking for an ordinance to exempt hosiery products from the Packaged Commodities Rules 2011 itself to avoid misinterpretations.

Earlier since products were classified under the packaged commodities rules, the authorities used to penalise manufacturers even when a vendor, to whom the products were sold in bulk packets, subsequently sold it piece-wise. Another grouse manufacturers have been is that hosiery products are never bought by customers in bulk and consumers usually prefer one or two inner garments from the main packet that contains large number of pieces packed together for convenience. Hence, these should be treated as pre-packaged commodity and not as a packed item, they say.

 
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