{"id":176663,"date":"2006-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-reduce-import-duty-on-ship-breaking-on-21-march-2006"},"modified":"2018-04-24T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:45:07","slug":"need-to-reduce-import-duty-on-ship-breaking-on-21-march-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-reduce-import-duty-on-ship-breaking-on-21-march-2006","title":{"rendered":"Need To Reduce Import Duty On Ship Breaking. on 21 March, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Need To Reduce Import Duty On Ship Breaking. on 21 March, 2006<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>                                          an&gt; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=Title%20\">Title <\/a>:  Need to reduce import duty on Ship breaking. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=SHRIMATI%20JAYABEN%20B.%20THAKKAR%20\">SHRIMATI JAYABEN B. THAKKAR <\/a>(<a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=VADODARA\">VADODARA<\/a>): Sir, my submission is about the reduction of import duty on ships coming to India for breaking.\u00a0 The major issue for the State Governments is that the import duty on ships, which are coming to India for ship breaking, is five per cent whereas on steel scrap and metal scrap, it is zero per cent.\u00a0 It has affected the ship breaking industry negatively since the production cost of the product made from the raw material of ship goes up to that extent.\u00a0 As a result of that the product becomes less competitive.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The hon. Chief Minister of Gujarat has written a detailed letter to the hon. Finance Minister in this regard on 8-12-2004.\u00a0 So, I urge upon the Central Government to review the issue and to reduce the import duty on ships coming to India for breaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Need To Reduce Import Duty On Ship Breaking. on 21 March, 2006 an&gt; Title : Need to reduce import duty on Ship breaking. SHRIMATI JAYABEN B. 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