Rule 138F of the CGST Rules, 2017

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At a glance

Entitlement and conditions

  • 138F(1)The State or Union territory mandate must cover the specified goods and the notified threshold cannot be below two lakh rupees. The threshold requires consultation with the specified central tax authority.
  • 138F(5)No bill is required for the specified movement from customs entry locations to inland depots or freight stations for clearance, movement under customs bond between the named locations, or movement under customs supervision or seal.

Bars, duties and time limits

  • 138F(1)–(2)A registered person causing covered intra-State movement for supply, other reasons or inward supply from an unregistered person furnishes Part A before movement. An e-commerce operator or courier agency may furnish it for goods supplied through them. Part B is not required.
  • 138F(4)If goods are not moved or movement differs from the bill details, cancellation is permitted within twenty-four hours of generation, unless the bill has already been verified in transit.

Procedure, powers and definitions

  • 138F(3)The supplier may use Part A information made available on the portal for FORM GSTR-1.
  • 138F(6) and ExplanationConsignment value follows section 15 and includes central and State or Union territory tax charged, excluding exempt goods in a mixed invoice. Specified validity, acceptance, document, verification, detention and restriction rules apply with necessary changes.
  • 138FThe law does not settle the adaptations of those imported procedures while preserving the territorial mandate and absence of Part B.

Rule 138F provides a special e-way bill procedure for specified precious goods moving within a State or Union territory. It applies only where the local Commissioner mandates the information and the consignment exceeds the notified threshold. The rule overrides the general procedure, requires Part A without Part B and provides cancellation conditions, customs-related exclusions and adapted application of other e-way bill rules.[1]

Text

The text below is the rule as served by the CBIC tax information portal on 17 September 2026, with the portal's own amendment footnote markers (shown as small numerals before a bracket) and its footnotes.[1] The Rules as published in the Gazette of India is the legal source.

Rule 138F, verbatim (show)

Rule 138F

1[Rule 138F. Information to be furnished in case of intra-State movement of gold, precious stones, etc. and generation of e-way bills thereof.-

(1) Where-

(a) a Commissioner of State tax or Union territory tax mandates furnishing of information regarding intra-State movement of goods specified against serial numbers 4 and 5 in the Annexure appended to sub-rule (14) of rule 138, in accordance with sub-rule (1) of rule 138F of the State or Union territory Goods and Services Tax Rules, and

(b) the consignment value of such goods exceeds such amount, not below rupees two lakhs, as may be notified by the Commissioner of State tax or Union territory tax, in consultation with the jurisdictional Principal Chief Commissioner or Chief Commissioner of Central Tax, or any Commissioner of Central Tax authorised by him,

notwithstanding anything contained in Rule 138, every registered person who causes intra-State movement of such goods, -

(i) in relation to a supply; or

(ii) for reasons other than supply; or

(iii) due to inward supply from an un-registered person,

shall, before the commencement of such movement within that State or Union territory, furnish information relating to such goods electronically, as specified in Part A of FORM GST EWB-01, against which a unique number shall be generated:

Provided that where the goods to be transported are supplied through an e-commerce operator or a courier agency, the information in Part A of FORM GST EWB-01 may be furnished by such e-commerce operator or courier agency.

(2) The information as specified in PART B of FORM GST EWB-01 shall not be required to be furnished in respect of movement of goods referred to in the sub-rule (1) and after furnishing information in Part-A of FORM GST EWB-01 as specified in sub-rule (1), the e-way bill shall be generated in FORM GST EWB-01, electronically on the common portal.

(3) The information furnished in Part A of FORM GST EWB-01 shall be made available to the registered supplier on the common portal who may utilize the same for furnishing the details in FORM GSTR-1.

(4) Where an e-way bill has been generated under this rule, but goods are either not transported or are not transported as per the details furnished in the e-waybill, the e-way bill may be cancelled, electronically on the common portal, within twenty-four hours of generation of the e-way bill:

Provided that an e-way bill cannot be cancelled if it has been verified in transit in accordance with the provisions of rule 138B.

(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in this rule, no e-way bill is required to be generated-

(a) where the goods are being transported from the customs port, airport, air cargo complex and land customs station to an inland container depot or a container freight station for clearance by Customs;

(b) where the goods are being transported-

(i) under customs bond from an inland container depot or a container freight station to a customs port, airport, air cargo complex and land customs station, or from one customs station or customs port to another customs station or customs port, or

(ii) under customs supervision or under customs seal.

(6) The provisions of sub-rule (10), sub-rule (11) and sub-rule (12) of rule 138, rule 138A, rule 138B, rule 138C, rule 138D and rule 138E shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to an e-way bill generated under this rule.

Explanation.- For the purposes of this rule, the consignment value of goods shall be the value, determined in accordance with the provisions of section 15, declared in an invoice, a bill of supply or a delivery challan, as the case may be, issued in respect of the said consignment and also includes the central tax, State tax or Union territory tax charged in the document and shall exclude the value of exempt supply of goods where the invoice is issued in respect of both exempt and taxable supply of goods.]

1. Inserted vide Notification No. 38/2023-CT dated 04.08.2023.

Questions to answer on the file

Questions a reviewer answers from the engagement file, grouped by the part of the rule they come from. They describe what the rule asks; they do not decide it.

State mandate and notified threshold trigger 138F(1)(a)–(b)

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Part A furnishing before movement 138F(1)(i)–(iii) and proviso

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E-commerce or courier furnishing option 138F(1) proviso

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Special generation without Part B 138F(2)

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Supplier reuse of Part A 138F(3)

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Cancellation conditions 138F(4)

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Customs exceptions 138F(5)

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Imported provisions and adaptation 138F(6)

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Special consignment value calculation 138F Explanation

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Amendment history

The CBIC text carries 1 footnote. The table gives each in the source's own terms. Effective dates are as the footnotes state them.[1]

Amendments to Rule 138F as footnoted in the CBIC text
NoteChange
1Inserted vide Notification No. 38/2023-CT dated 04.08.2023.[2]
Provisions connected to Rule 138F
ProvisionConnectionWords that tie them
Rule 138this provision exception in Rule 138138F(1): "notwithstanding anything contained in Rule 138"; special override of Rule 138 for its own conditions
Rule 138this provision defined by Rule 138138F(1)(a): "goods specified against serial numbers 4 and 5 in the Annexure"
Rule 138this provision requires Rule 138138F(6): "sub-rule (10), sub-rule (11) and sub-rule (12) of rule 138"
Section 15 of the CGST Act, 2017this provision defined by Section 15 of the CGST Act, 2017138F Explanation: "determined in accordance with the provisions of section 15"
Rule 138Bthis provision requires Rule 138B138F(4): "verified in transit in accordance with the provisions of rule 138B"
Rule 138Athis provision requires Rule 138A138F(6): "mutatis mutandis"
Rule 138Cthis provision requires Rule 138C138F(6): "mutatis mutandis"
Rule 138Dthis provision requires Rule 138D138F(6): "mutatis mutandis"
Rule 138Ethis provision requires Rule 138E138F(6): "mutatis mutandis"

Circulars and notifications

No circular or notification in the CBIC repository is recorded as citing this rule.

Unsettled questions

The words of Rule 138F do not answer this question. Where one decides a matter on the file, the answer depends on the position taken on it.

  1. How should the imported validity, acceptance and verification provisions be adapted to the special precious-goods bill while preserving the express Part B displacement and territorial mandate?

See also

References

  1. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs. "Rule 138F. Information to be furnished in case of intra-State movement of gold, precious stones, etc. and generation of e-way bills thereof". Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017, CBIC tax information portal, with amendment footnotes 1 to 1. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
  2. Notification No. 38/2023-Central Tax, dated 4 August 2023: Seeks to make amendments (Second Amendment , 2023) to the CGST Rules, 2017. Cited in CBIC footnote 1.

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