{"id":366769,"date":"2020-08-08T12:05:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T06:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=366769"},"modified":"2020-08-08T12:05:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T06:35:26","slug":"will-have-to-shut-down-sez-based-solar-manufacturers-oppose-basic-customs-duty-on-import-of-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/will-have-to-shut-down-sez-based-solar-manufacturers-oppose-basic-customs-duty-on-import-of-solar-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Will have to shut down\u2019: SEZ-based solar manufacturers oppose basic customs duty on import of solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar equipment makers have pointed out that local solar factories in SEZs will have to shut down if the government levies a basic customs duty (BCD) on the import of solar cells and modules without providing a level-playing field to these manufacturing units. SEZs house around 43% module making units and 63% of cell making facilities.<\/p>\n<p>If the BCD is imposed, those in the domestic tariff area who buy cells and modules from the SEZ units will have to pay the duty under the 2005 SEZ Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar equipment makers have pointed out that local solar factories in SEZs will have to shut down if the government levies a basic customs duty (BCD) on the import of solar cells and modules without providing a level-playing field to these manufacturing units. SEZs house around 43% module making units and 63% of cell making facilities. If the BCD is imposed, those in the domestic tariff area who buy cells and modules from the SEZ units will have to pay the duty under the 2005 SEZ Act.<\/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-366769","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\/366769","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=366769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}