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In a bid to boost the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, the government is looking at increasing customs duties and has initiated an inter-ministerial consultation. The government has begun a fresh round of assessment of current customs duties on directions from the Prime Minister’s Office. The government wants the key import-oriented ministries to re-assess their current import duties and come up with suitable suggestions.

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India is adopting a multi-pronged strategy to enhance trade and business partnership with Bangladesh amid Beijing's recent efforts to woo Dhaka with duty-free access to its products. Both India and Bangladesh are undertaking various measures to restore the pre-1965 rail and other connectivity links. While Chinese trade concessions can push Bangladesh into a “dual deficit and debt trap”, India is activating various connectivity initiatives for seamless movement of Bangladeshi products to the landlocked parts of India. These will enable Bangladesh to connect with Bhutan and Nepal markets along with India.

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The CMA CGM Group will toughen its rules for shipping protected species. They will draw up a blacklist of exporters suspected of illicit trafficking, and freeze timber exports from The Gambia to help prevent deforestation. This French shipping company is reinforcing its procedures for shipping protected species. As part of these tighter procedures, shippers must state if the species is covered by the CITES convention and provide requisite export permit whenever any animal or plant goods are carried.

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India imposed definitive anti-dumping duty on certain types of measuring tapes from China for five years to guard domestic manufacturers from cheap imports. The duty was imposed on 'steel and fibreglass measuring tapes and their parts and components' after the DGTR recommended for continuation of the duty. The anti-dumping duty imposed under this notification shall be effective for a period of five years and shall be paid in Indian currency

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India’s seafood exports to China are reportedly facing the brunt of resistance. Shippers are citing delays in the clearance of marine product consignments in the recent past. But in the last 15 days, there has been a deliberate attempt to delay inspection of Indian containers under the pretext of Covid-19 supervision. As matters are tense at the borders, it now takes 10 days for the cargo to be cleared instead of the standard 3 days.

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South Africa's government has banned all exports of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal for two months. This has been implemented to safeguard domestic supply while it considers measures to support the domestic industry. The two-month pause took effect on 3 July. Scrap metal shipments that already received export permits or that applied for permits prior to 3 July will be allowed to go forward. The ministry also will issue permits for scrap metal that it determines is not being used by South Africa's domestic processing industry.

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The current situation in India is still enormously challenging – also for logistics companies like Hapag Lloyd. Hence, they are terminating their established India Gulf Service 2 (IG2). However, as an alternative, they offer weekly service offerings for Hazira - Jebel Ali through their existing feeder partners. All sailings can be found in the interactive schedule on their website.

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Odisha's Paradip Port has commenced EXIM service (freight), which will help reduce logistics costs for the industries of Odisha. For the first time, a regular EXIM service is starting from Paradip to Port Klang, Malaysia. And this service will reduce logistics costs for most of the industries of Odisha. Currently, most of the container movement is moving from Odisha into Vizag or Kolkata, which will shift soon. The newly launched service will be a 'game-changer' for the industries in Odisha and will further the economic development of the state.

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South Korea is facing more investigations on import restrictions from major countries this year due to growing protectionism worldwide amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the KITA, South Korea saw the launch of 23 new investigations on suspicions of anti-dumping and safeguards in the first six months of the year, up to four from a year earlier. Currently, South Korea is subject to 219 import regulation measures. Of them, 164 are anti-dumping duties, while 46 others are safeguard measures and nine are countervailing duties.

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