{"id":359742,"date":"2020-06-27T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359742"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T05:36:00","slug":"import-duty-on-solar-modules-to-rise-to-40-in-a-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/import-duty-on-solar-modules-to-rise-to-40-in-a-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Import duty on solar modules to rise to 40% in a year"},"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","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.<\/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-359742","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\/359742","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=359742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}