Basic Excise Duty Reduced on E22, E25, E27 and E30 Ethanol Blends of Petrol

[Notification No. 26/2026-Central Excise dated 10 June, 2026]

Seeks to amend Notification No. 11/2017-Central Excise dated 30.06.2026 to give exemption from basic excise duty to duty-paid Ethanol blends of petrol, i.e. E22, E25, E27 and E30.

G.S.R...(E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 11/2017-Central Excise, dated the 30th June, 2017, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 793 (E), dated the 30th June, 2017, namely:-

In the said notification,

I.    in the TABLE, after Sl. No. 5D and the entries relating thereto, the following Sl. Nos. and entries shall be inserted, namely:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

"5E.

2710 12

22% ethanol blended petrol that is a blend, -

Nil

 

 

(i)    consisting, by volume, of 78% motor spirit, (commonly known as petrol), on which the appropriate duties of excise have been paid and of 22% ethanol on which the appropriate Central tax, State tax, Union territory tax or Integrated tax, as the case may be, have been paid; and

(ii)   conforming to the Bureau of Indian Standards specification IS 19850.

 

5F.

2710 12

25% ethanol blended petrol that is a blend, -

Nil

 

 

(i)    consisting, by volume, of 75% motor spirit, (commonly known as petrol), on which the appropriate duties of excise have been paid and of 25% ethanol on which the appropriate Central tax, State tax, Union territory tax or Integrated tax, as the case may be, have been paid; and

(ii)   conforming to the Bureau of Indian Standards specification IS 19850.

 

5G.

2710 12

27% ethanol blended petrol that is a blend, -

Nil

(i)    consisting, by volume, of 73% motor spirit, (commonly known as petrol), on which the appropriate duties of excise have been paid and of 27% ethanol on which the appropriate Central tax, State tax, Union territory tax or Integrated tax, as the case may be, have been paid; and

 

(ii)   conforming to the Bureau of Indian Standards specification IS 19850.

 

5H.

2710 12

30% ethanol blended petrol that is a blend, -

Nil

(i)    consisting, by volume, of 70% motor spirit, (commonly known as petrol), on which the appropriate duties of excise have been paid and of 30% ethanol on which the appropriate Central tax, State tax, Union territory tax or Integrated tax, as the case may be, have been paid; and

 

(ii)   conforming to the Bureau of Indian Standards specification IS 19850.

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II.   in Explanation 2, after the figure and letter “5D”, the figures, letters and symbols, “,5E, 5F, 5G, 5H” shall be inserted.

[F. No. 190354/295/2021-TRU]