NEW DELHI: The government\u2019s concern over duty-free import of coal under the proposed bilateral trade agreement with Australia is seen as the main reason for a delay in the announcement of an interim deal, which was to be the key element of the PM-level summit on Monday.
\nWhile everything was going on smoothly and commerce minister Piyush Goyal and his counterpart Dan Tehan had last month set a 30-day deadline for their officials to clinch the early harvest scheme \u2014 a precursor to a full-fledged comprehensive economic cooperation agreement \u2014 coal has caused a last-minute delay.
\nIt is the top item in Australia\u2019s export basket to India, with coking coal accounting for a bulk of it. Australia is the biggest source of coking coal shipments into India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The government\u2019s concern over duty-free import of coal under the proposed bilateral trade agreement with Australia is seen as the main reason for a delay in the announcement of an interim deal, which was to be the key element of the PM-level summit on Monday. While everything was going on smoothly and commerce minister Piyush Goyal and his counterpart Dan Tehan had last month set a 30-day deadline for their officials to clinch the early harvest scheme \u2014 a precursor to a full-fledged comprehensive economic cooperation agreement \u2014 coal has caused a last-minute delay. It is the top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476879","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}