{"id":955,"date":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T09:15:06","slug":"import-duty-on-sugar-increased-from-25-percent-to-40-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxclick.org\/type\/exim\/import-duty-on-sugar-increased-from-25-percent-to-40-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Import duty on sugar increased from 25 percent to 40 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval to&nbsp;increase import duty on sugar from 25 percent to 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;In order improve the price sentiments relating to sugar, the Government has decided to take the following steps:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The duty on import of sugar under the Open General License&nbsp; (OGL) shall be increased to 40 percent, as against the current level of 25 percent. &nbsp;This would prevent any imports in case international prices of sugar were to depress further.<\/p>\n<p>2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201cDuty Free Import Authorization\u201d scheme (DFIA), for sugar would be withdrawn. Under the DFIA, exporters of sugar could import duty free, permissible quantities of raw sugar for subsequent processing and disposal. To prevent leakage of sugar made from such duty free imports in the domestic markets, the DFIA scheme for sugar would be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Similarly, the period for discharging Export Obligations under the Advanced Authorization Scheme for sugar would be reduced to six &nbsp;months, so as to prevent any possibility of any leakage into the domestic markets.<\/p>\n<p>4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Removal of excise duty on ethanol supplied for blending. It has been decided that ethanol produced from molasses generated during the next sugar season and supplied for ethanol blending would be exempted from excise duty and the price benefit would be passed on the to the sugar mills\/distilleries.Presently 12.36 percent central excise duty is levied.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These measures will significantly improve the adverse price sentiments in respect of sugar and would improve the liquidity in the industry, facilitating the clearing up of arrears of canedues to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The past four years have witnessed continued overproduction of sugar as compared to domestic requirements. This has depressed sugar prices; consequently the mills have been constrained for liquidity and are facing difficulties in clearing cane dues owed to the farmers. This has affected the incomes of 50 million sugar cane farmers. Similar conditions of subdued prices prevail in the global markets. The Government has, from time to time, provided financial assistance to the industry to overcome liquidity constraints such as providing interest free working capital loans and incentives for raw sugar exports. However, due to adverse price sentiments plaguing the sector, problems of cane dues arrears persist. As on 31<sup>st<\/sup>March 2015, the cane dues arrears stood at &nbsp;Rs.20,099 crore which is higher than the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a><\/a>***<\/p>\n<p>AKT\/NT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;(Release ID :119922)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval to&nbsp;increase import duty on sugar from 25 percent to 40 percent. &nbsp;In order improve the price sentiments relating to sugar, the Government has decided to take the following steps: &nbsp; 1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The duty on import of sugar under the Open General &#8230; <a title=\"Import duty on sugar increased from 25 percent to 40 percent\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/taxclick.org\/type\/exim\/import-duty-on-sugar-increased-from-25-percent-to-40-percent\/\" aria-label=\"More on Import duty on sugar increased from 25 percent to 40 percent\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[222],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Import duty on sugar increased from 25 percent to 40 percent - All About Finance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/taxclick.org\/type\/exim\/import-duty-on-sugar-increased-from-25-percent-to-40-percent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Import duty on sugar increased from 25 percent to 40 percent - All About Finance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval to&nbsp;increase import duty on sugar from 25 percent to 40 percent. &nbsp;In order improve the price sentiments relating to sugar, the Government has decided to take the following steps: &nbsp; 1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The duty on import of sugar under the Open General ... 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