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No duty cuts on US apple, almond imports: Piyush Goyal.
Sep 13, 2023

The Centre Tuesday said it had not removed customs duty on apple and almond imports from the US and had put in place measures to prevent cheap imports flooding the Indian market.
 
'There is no duty reduction on apples,' Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal said.
 
On the contrary, the government has imposed a minimum import price of Rs.50 per kg on imports of apples from all countries except Bhutan, he added. 'This will ensure that no one can flood Indian markets and hurt our farmers,' Goyal said, adding that India had imposed a 20% retaliatory duty in addition to a 50% import duty on some US imports in view of trade disputes at WTO.
 
Only the retaliatory duty has been removed in view of the resolution of those disputes, he added. India is not self-sufficient in apple production to meet the domestic requirements.
 
An official statement said that following the decision to resolve six outstanding World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes between the US and India through Mutually Agreed Solutions in June 2023, India has withdrawn additional duties on eight US origin products, including apples, walnuts and almonds.
 
'Additional duties of 20% each on apples and walnuts and Rs.20 per kg on almonds were imposed on the US's products in 2019 over and above the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) duty as a retaliation to the US's state protectionist measure of increasing tariffs on certain steel and aluminium products', it said. There is no reduction in the MFN duty on apples, walnuts and almonds, which still applies to all imported products, including US-origin products, it added.
    
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