Handloom exemption compliance: manufacturers must declare, label, maintain records and submit to annual audits by authorized officials. Manufacturers seeking the handloom exemption must annually or prior to first use intimate the distinctive profile of goods to the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner, maintain records of quantity, value and daily stock of handloom fabrics with the distinctive profile, declare in the invoice and affix a label that goods are made from handloom fabrics, and submit to annual audits and sample testing by a team authorized by the Commissioner including a Central Excise officer and a Textiles Committee officer.