{"id":359506,"date":"2020-06-26T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T05:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359506"},"modified":"2020-06-26T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T05:54:27","slug":"government-steps-up-efforts-to-cut-solar-panel-imports-from-china-proposes-20-25-customs-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-steps-up-efforts-to-cut-solar-panel-imports-from-china-proposes-20-25-customs-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Government steps up efforts to cut solar panel imports from China, proposes 20-25% customs duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To curb imports of solar panels, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has proposed to levy 20-25% basic customs duty, Union power minister RK Singh said. For solar cells, the domestic manufacturing capacity of which is lower, the duty will be 15%, he added. The duty on panels will progressively be increased to 40%.<\/p>\n<p>The duties are expected to be levied right after the safeguard duty regime on these products ends on July 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To curb imports of solar panels, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has proposed to levy 20-25% basic customs duty, Union power minister RK Singh said. For solar cells, the domestic manufacturing capacity of which is lower, the duty will be 15%, he added. The duty on panels will progressively be increased to 40%. The duties are expected to be levied right after the safeguard duty regime on these products ends on July 31.<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359506","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=359506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}