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India allowed Nepali cargo trucks to proceed to the Panitanki border point in West Bengal after being stranded on the bridge over the Mechi River for six days. According to the Mechi Customs Office, six trucks carrying tea and four trucks carrying large cardamom crossed the border on Tuesday. Six trucks laden with tea and five trucks laden with large cardamom rolled across the border. Nine trucks carrying broom grass bound for Haryana, India also crossed the border.

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Private weather forecaster Skymet Weather has launched Kerala Rain. It is a mobile app available in both Android and iOS versions, as an integrated solution for weather-related information. Floods forecasting and disaster management can be monitored for Kerala ahead of the rainy months of July and August.

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India’s Customs officers at Mumbai and Chennai have begun scrutinising cargo containers originating from China to verify large “under-valuation” of products. Stakeholders in India’s export-import (EXIM) logistics chain have been grappling with an “internal, oral instruction” from the Customs to all custodians of cargo to maintain all containers which have originated from China till they’re re-examined and cleared by the Customs.

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The Indian leather industry should grab the opportunity as leather manufacturers from Europe and the United Kingdom are planning to shift their production units to India. The Indian leather industry should make every effort to attract European manufacturers as their investment would generate employment. Recently, a Korean company had agreed with a Chennai firm and assured to invest around Rs.350 crores in India.

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Hyundai Glovis India Pvt Ltd, the Indian unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Glovis Co Ltd, has shuttered its container freight station (CFS) operations in Chennai. The success of the direct port delivery (DPD) scheme and the general decline in cargo forced the in-house logistics unit of automotive maker Hyundai Motor Co to re-work strategies. Hyundai Glovis India has surrendered its CFS licence.

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Amid the ongoing border dispute between India and China, import consignments from the neighbouring country at ports such as Chennai and Mumbai are learnt to be facing hurdles. The disruption in clearances is reported to have emerged over the last fortnight, even as there are no written or verbal instructions from the Customs authorities or the CBIC.

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The government has imposed anti-dumping duty on certain value-added steel products. This initiative has been taken to curb cheap imports and support the struggling domestic industry that’s hit hard by the pandemic. The duty will be applicable for five years from October 15 on the steel imported from China, Vietnam and Korea. The duty will be payable in the rupee.

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India has initiated a probe into the alleged dumping of aluminium foil from China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand following a complaint by domestic manufacturers. Hindalco Industries NSE 5.50 %, Raviraj Foils and Jindal India have filed an application seeking initiation of an anti-dumping investigation on imports from these countries. The applicants have alleged that dumping has impacted the industry and has requested for the imposition of the anti-dumping duty on the imports.

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Around 2,200 containers that feed Chennai on a normal day move in and out of three ports — Chennai, Kamarajar and Katupally. Since the intensive lockdown was re-imposed in Chennai and its neighbouring districts, only some containers are transiting the ports. And even those are stranded at various check-posts within the city. This has hit the operations of the manufacturing hubs surrounding the city. Their exports are hit as most containers headed for the ports are stuck outside the city.

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