On January 4, 2024, India's Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals (DCPC) released the Polyethylene Material for Moulding and Extrusion (Quality Control) Amendment Order, 2024, which introduced exemptions for the following PE materials: 

a) Low Density Polyethylene Extrusion (LDPE) Coating; 

b) Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Film Grades (Blown/ Cast) or Pharma; 

c) Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) Butene Grades; 

d) Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) Hexene/ Octene Grades; 

e) Metallocene Polyethylene Grades; 

f) Base Resins of Power Cable, Jacketing and other applications; and 

g) compounds for Cable Jacketing/ Sheathing/ Polyethylene-80 and Polyethylene-100 (Black and Pigmented)/ Reinforcement Filler