India Removes Import Tax on Lentils, Restricts Imports of Mung Beans, USDA Says
India removed its 10% Agriculture Infrastructure Development tax on lentils effective Feb. 12, according to a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report. Alongside the removal of import tariffs on lentils in 2021 for all countries except the U.S. (see 2108030034), the…
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elimination of the tax means the effective tariff rate on non-U.S. lentil imports into India is now zero percent. The import duty for U.S. origin lentils was lowered from 33% to 22% “after accounting for the existing basic duty and social welfare surcharge,” the report said. India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry also announced Feb. 11 that it's moving imports of mung beans “from the freely importable category to the restricted category with immediate effect,” USDA said.