{"id":358903,"date":"2020-06-24T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T04:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358903"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:01:50","slug":"govt-considers-imposing-customs-duty-on-solar-equipment-from-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-considers-imposing-customs-duty-on-solar-equipment-from-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt considers imposing customs duty on solar equipment from August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is considering imposing a customs duty on imports of solar modules, cells and inverters from August, the power ministry said on Tuesday, as part of a push to curb foreign purchases. <\/p>\n<p>India does not now levy a customs tax on imports of solar cells and modules, most of which come from China to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s target of installing 100 gigawatt of solar energy by 2022. Other existing taxes expire in July. <\/p>\n<p>Three-state run firms would offer finance at low interest rates to encourage the local production of solar equipment, the power ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is considering imposing a customs duty on imports of solar modules, cells and inverters from August, the power ministry said on Tuesday, as part of a push to curb foreign purchases. India does not now levy a customs tax on imports of solar cells and modules, most of which come from China to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s target of installing 100 gigawatt of solar energy by 2022. Other existing taxes expire in July. Three-state run firms would offer finance at low interest rates to encourage the local production of solar equipment, the power ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}