{"id":359473,"date":"2020-06-26T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359473"},"modified":"2020-06-26T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T05:30:18","slug":"government-plans-to-impose-15-25-duty-on-solar-gear-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-plans-to-impose-15-25-duty-on-solar-gear-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Government plans to impose 15-25% duty on solar gear imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government is planning to impose a basic customs duty in the range of 20-25% on imported solar modules from August 1, which would eventually be raised to 40% a year, power and renewable energy minister R K Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>For solar cells, the customs duty will start with a 15% levy this August, and will be raised to 30%, Singh said in a video news conference, in which he also spoke about the need to reduce imports in the \u201csensitive\u201d power sector and the attempts to sabotage customer-friendly reforms by vested interests.<\/p>\n<p>He said the power sector would be made financially viable with new rules and amendments to the law, making it consumer friendly and limiting cross-subsidies, but vested interests were spreading \u201ccanards\u201d that the Centre would usurp the powers of the states and interfere in appointing regulators, although no such move is in the offing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government is planning to impose a basic customs duty in the range of 20-25% on imported solar modules from August 1, which would eventually be raised to 40% a year, power and renewable energy minister R K Singh said. For solar cells, the customs duty will start with a 15% levy this August, and will be raised to 30%, Singh said in a video news conference, in which he also spoke about the need to reduce imports in the \u201csensitive\u201d power sector and the attempts to sabotage customer-friendly reforms by vested interests. He said the power sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359473","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}