{"id":22955,"date":"2023-09-27T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/?p=22955"},"modified":"2023-09-27T18:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:40:23","slug":"indian-gem-jewellery-industry-calls-for-voluntary-halt-of-natural-rough-diamond-imports-from-15th-oct-to-15th-dec-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/indian-gem-jewellery-industry-calls-for-voluntary-halt-of-natural-rough-diamond-imports-from-15th-oct-to-15th-dec-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Gem &#038; Jewellery Industry Calls For Voluntary Halt of Natural Rough Diamond Imports From 15th Oct to 15th Dec 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian gem and jewellery industry has taken a unanimous decision to voluntarily halt the import of natural rough diamonds from 15th October to 15th December, 2023. This strategic move is aimed at addressing imbalance in demand and supply. This voluntary cessation of importing natural rough diamonds will not affect the processing and manufacturing activities within the industry. Additionally, factories in India traditionally observe a closure period of nearly two weeks during the Diwali festival in the second week of November.<\/p>\n<p>The below letter was circulated among industry members by trade associations including the GJEPC, BDB, MDMA, SDB and SDA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22956 aligncenter lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"942\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/a1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/a1-127x150.jpg 127w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/a1-768x904.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/a1-450x530.jpg 450w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/a1-225x265.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/a1-20x24.jpg 20w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/a1-82x96.jpg 82w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22953 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2-707x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"1000\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2-707x1000.jpg 707w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2-450x636.jpg 450w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2-225x318.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2-20x28.jpg 20w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2-68x96.jpg 68w, https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Appeal-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian gem and jewellery industry has taken a unanimous decision to voluntarily halt the import of natural rough diamonds from 15th October to 15th December, 2023. This strategic move is aimed at addressing imbalance in demand and supply. This voluntary cessation of importing natural rough diamonds will not affect the processing and manufacturing activities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-22955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulletin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indian Gem &amp; Jewellery Industry Calls For Voluntary Halt of Natural Rough Diamond Imports From 15th Oct to 15th Dec 2023 - Solitaire magazine is a International jewellery magazine - India\u2019s leading B2B gem and jewellery magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/indian-gem-jewellery-industry-calls-for-voluntary-halt-of-natural-rough-diamond-imports-from-15th-oct-to-15th-dec-2023\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indian Gem &amp; Jewellery Industry Calls For Voluntary Halt of Natural Rough Diamond Imports From 15th Oct to 15th Dec 2023 - Solitaire magazine is a International jewellery magazine - India\u2019s leading B2B gem and jewellery magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Indian gem and jewellery industry has taken a unanimous decision to voluntarily halt the import of natural rough diamonds from 15th October to 15th December, 2023. 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