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    India extends lockdown for 2 weeks from May 4

    2020-05-01T14:52:00Z

    The Indian government is extending a nationwide lockown for two weeks from May 4. The lockdown was scheduled to end on May 3 and will now run until May 17. The Ministry of Home Affairs however indicated that there would be significant relaxations in low risk parts of the country, ...

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    India may hike import duties on footwear

    2020-03-25T11:27:00Z

    In presenting his country’s budget, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Nitharaman reportedly proposed to raise customs duties on certain types of imported footwear to 35 percent from 25 percent to help protect labor-intensive industries. “Cheap and low-quality imports are an impediment to their growth. Special attention has been taken to ...