India has taken a formal step toward standardising how lab-grown diamonds are described in the marketplace, introducing a new voluntary code from 1 January 2026. Issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the guidance aims to bring greater clarity and consumer confidence to a segment that, while still relatively small, is expanding steadily. Although […]

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The Indian government today announced an immediate abolition of the five per cent import levy on the graphite seeds used to create lab grown diamonds. The move is seen as a major boost to India’s small but growing lab grown sector, and follows the announcement last August that the State Bank of India (SBI) would, […]

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