{"id":140,"date":"2006-09-09T12:51:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T11:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php\/2006\/09\/09\/now-no-import-duty-on-wheat\/"},"modified":"2006-09-09T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T11:51:30","slug":"now-no-import-duty-on-wheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Now &#8220;No Import Duty&#8221; on Wheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, September 09, 2006     16:33 IST<br \/>\nMinistry of Finance   <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Revenue, Central Board of Excise and Customs has notified the reduction of the customs duty on import of wheat by private trade from 5 percent to zero percent with immediate effect up to 31st December, 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Cabinet Committee of Prices, in its meeting held on 31st August, 2006, had decided that zero duty imports of wheat by private trade would be notified after STC concluded its wheat import contracts currently under finalization.   STC opened its tenders at 3:00 p.m. on 5th September, 2006. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food &#038; Public Distribution, Department of Food &#038; Public Distribution informed today i.e. 9th September, 2006 that STC has finalized its wheat import contracts. Accordingly, zero duty imports of wheat by private trade has been notified today vide Notification No. 97\/2006-Customs dated 09.09.2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, September 09, 2006 16:33 IST Ministry of Finance The Department of Revenue, Central Board of Excise and Customs has notified the reduction of the customs duty on import of wheat by private trade from 5 percent to zero percent with immediate effect up to 31st December, 2006. Cabinet Committee of Prices, in its meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}