GST rate amendment alters schedule classifications and packaging-based tax treatment for specified goods, effective mid-July. The notification inserts a new 0.75% Schedule VII and implements multiple schedule-level amendments across Schedules I, II, III and VI, including additions, omissions, substitutions and re-numberings of tariff entries; it conditions tax treatment of numerous goods on being 'pre-packaged and labelled' as defined by the Legal Metrology Act, and makes specific rate-class changes for items such as solar water heaters, LED components, pumps, machinery, inks, e waste, and certain medical and food products, effective 18th July, 2022.