GJEPC: The Gem and Jewellery Trade's Collective Voice

Imagine an industry spanning natural diamonds, lab-grown diamonds, gold and other precious stone jewellery manufacturing and export, covered throughout this page and elsewhere on this site, needing a single collective body to negotiate trade policy with government, compile reliable export statistics and represent the sector's interests internationally, exactly the role the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council, GJEPC, plays for what remains one of India's most significant export categories.

GJEPC's advocacy work touches directly on several policy threads covered throughout this page, the diamond seed duty removal and lab-grown diamond certification standards, both covered elsewhere on this site, reflect GJEPC-led industry engagement with government on exactly the kind of technical trade policy questions that shape whether India's diamond processing industry remains globally competitive against emerging cutting centres in other countries.

The council's export data collection role matters directly for understanding the industry's genuinely dramatic recent shifts, covered under the LGD-Natural Export Crossover and US Tariff Diamond Crisis discussions elsewhere on this site, GJEPC's trade statistics are the primary source documenting exactly when lab-grown diamond export volumes overtook natural diamonds, and by how much US tariffs have hit natural diamond exports specifically, making the council's data infrastructure genuinely central to how this rapidly shifting industry gets tracked and understood by policymakers, media and the trade itself.

GJEPC's position representing both the struggling natural diamond trade and the rapidly growing lab-grown segment simultaneously creates a genuine internal balancing act, covered under the Squeeze on Natural Diamonds discussion elsewhere on this site, the council has to advocate for support and relief for an established natural diamond industry facing genuine structural pressure while also promoting the newer lab-grown segment's growth, two constituencies within the same broader industry whose interests don't always point in exactly the same policy direction.