Whether filling chemical into drums treated as a job work?

[Yatin Bhopi]

Dear expert,

We are manufactures of chemicals. We sale our products in drums as well as in tanker. Now our drum filling machine is out of service. To complete the customer commitments, we wish to do this durm filling activity with job worker who is registered under GST.

my query is, whether sending finished goods to the job worker for filling drums construed as a job work activity? can we follow job work procedure?

AI Summary

Job work classification: filling drums treated as job work permitting sending goods under prescribed job work procedure.
Filling chemical drums by an external contractor is a job work activity as it is a treatment or process on goods belonging to another registered person; the principal may send goods without payment of tax subject to job work compliance, must use a prescribed challan which the job worker may endorse, file the quarterly return reporting job work movements, maintain accounts, and may declare the job worker premises as an additional place of business where permitted.