Canalisation of beach sand minerals now mandates export through the State Trading Enterprise Indian Rare Earths Limited under new policy. Specified Beach Sand Minerals comprising Rare Earth compounds (ilmenite, rutile, leucoxene, zircon, garnet, sillimanite and monazite) are canalised under State Trading Enterprise control and must be exported through Indian Rare Earths Limited, pursuant to a newly inserted entry in Chapter 26 of Schedule 2 of the ITC(HS) Classification. Other minerals in the chapter remain freely exportable except those notified as prescribed substances under the Atomic Energy Act.