Packaged food without trademark may face 5% GST Packaged food items sold under a brand name without a registered trademark may face five per cent goods and services tax (GST). This is among the issues likely to be taken up at the GST Council meeting on Saturday. Other items on the agenda for the daylong meeting in Hyderabad include reopening of the composition scheme window, hike in cess on cars and correction of anomaly in rates of certain goods. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is learnt to have assured representatives of branded food companies with registered trademarks that the government will rectify the anomaly in the Council meeting on Saturday. Widening the definition of ´brands´ by the Council will end the exemption foralot of packaged food players who have a logo and a brand name but have not applied for a trademark. The registered trademark players, especially rice companies, which face a five per cent GST, have protested against the misuse of provision by cer