{"id":427211,"date":"2021-07-24T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=427211"},"modified":"2021-07-24T09:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T04:04:19","slug":"tesla-lobbies-india-for-sharply-lower-import-taxes-on-evs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tesla-lobbies-india-for-sharply-lower-import-taxes-on-evs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla lobbies India for sharply lower import taxes on EVs: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Tesla Inc is likely to set up a factory in India if successful with imported vehicles, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Twitter, after the company wrote to Indian ministries seeking a big reduction in import duties on electric vehicles, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The electric-car maker&#8217;s pitch to lower duties, however, is likely to face resistance from Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s administration which has championed high import taxes for many industries in a bid to boost local manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to do so, but import duties are the highest in the world by far of any large country,&#8221; Musk said in reply to a tweet about launching the company&#8217;s cars in India. (https:\/\/bit.ly\/2WfUrEw)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Tesla Inc is likely to set up a factory in India if successful with imported vehicles, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Twitter, after the company wrote to Indian ministries seeking a big reduction in import duties on electric vehicles, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. The electric-car maker&#8217;s pitch to lower duties, however, is likely to face resistance from Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s administration which has championed high import taxes for many industries in a bid to boost local manufacturing. &#8220;We want to do so, but import duties are the highest in the [&hellip;]<\/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-427211","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\/427211","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=427211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}