TIOL-DDT 2662 · Thursday, 13 August 2015 · story 3 of 6

Customs Duty on Steel Increased

GOVERNMENT has increased the Customs duty on steel by a complicated amendment to Sl. Nos.329A 330 and 334 and inserting new Sl. Nos333A and 333B in the table to Notification No. 12/2012- Customs, dated the 17th March, 2012.

Though the steel industry is not very much excited, the Steel Minister is.

The Steel Minister Narendra Singh Tomar tweeted:

Heartfelt gratitude to Hon'ble Shri Narendra Modi and Shri Arun Jaitley for the decision to increase import duty in keeping with the immediate needs of the steel industry.

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A similar exercise was done in June this year and the Steel Minister had then tweeted that it was a solid initiative towards fulfilling the government's goal of ‘Make in India' - See .

Notification No. , Dated: August 12, 2015

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