{"id":591216,"date":"2023-07-15T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=591216"},"modified":"2023-07-15T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T06:38:19","slug":"chinese-hand-solar-imports-surge-from-fta-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinese-hand-solar-imports-surge-from-fta-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese hand? Solar imports surge from FTA nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A surge in duty free solar imports from southeast Asian countries that have free trade agreements (FTAs) with India, have raised suspicion of China re-routing supplies to escape customs duty, but the government is unlikely to slap safeguard duty. <\/p>\n<p>Available data shows the share of solar modules from FTA countries rising to 48% of total imports in the first two months of the current fiscal against 52% in 2022-23. But officials said safeguard duty is not feasible because of FTA and could also delay projects as domestic supplies lag demand. India began charging basic customs duty of 40% on solar modules and 25% on cells from April last year to ensure level-playing field for domestic manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A surge in duty free solar imports from southeast Asian countries that have free trade agreements (FTAs) with India, have raised suspicion of China re-routing supplies to escape customs duty, but the government is unlikely to slap safeguard duty. Available data shows the share of solar modules from FTA countries rising to 48% of total imports in the first two months of the current fiscal against 52% in 2022-23. But officials said safeguard duty is not feasible because of FTA and could also delay projects as domestic supplies lag demand. India began charging basic customs duty of 40% [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591216","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=591216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}