Centre to tag QR norm in amended Foreign Trade Act
The centre is going ahead with amending the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992, for incorporating a provision of quantitative import restrictions in line with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) provisions on safeguards.

Task force wants finance ministry to administer anti-dumping cases
The Task Force on Administrative & Legal Simplifications, advising the prime minister, has recommended a complete overhaul of the present anti-dumping duty structure.

Reserve Bank may ease export-credit norms
The Reserve Bank of India is likely to allow exporters to avail of export credit without furnishing export order or letters of credit (LCs) to banks.

  1998 ends on a cheerful note for tea sector
  Higher production may offset shortfall in exportable surplus of tea
  Cooch Behar tea planters plan processing units
  Rubber Park may kick off operations by 2000
  Cardamom prices seen up despite losses
  IISR fight against pepper disease a major success
  Rabi crops show good growth prospects
  Government goes slow on sugar import duty hike implementatio
  Higher oilseed output may depress edible oil
  Cement output spurts despite sluggish demand
  Cold conditions in north may ease
  Australian iron ore may face price cuts
  Imports weigh heavily on sugar producers
  Truck rates set to fall
  Pest management module for dryland cotton developed
  Centre eyes State Bank model, plans to sell small banks' stake
  Fertiliser scarcity continues in Uttar Pradesh
  Rasta roko over onions
  Jute industry's fortunes fluctuated last year
  Executive Briefing
  Cotton crop output seen below target
  `India must develop its own terminator gene'
  Unsold cotton yarn stocks signal yet another lean year
  Mumbai realty prices dwarf Asian rivals
  FICCI seeks infrastructure status for steel and coal
  Phdcci seeks more outlay for core sector
  Assocham calls for policy on internal trade
  Prime Minister asks scientists to focus on infotech, biotechnology
  Centre to amend Central Excise Act in bid to plug exemption
  Customer services to be main thrust of new telecom policy
  Rationalisation of import duty for industrial chemicals soon
  Telecom industry for zero duty on import of capital goods
  `Draw up local strategy for chemical industry'
  `Textiles, pharmaceuticals among least priority areas for FD
  `Wheels of fortune' spin death for Madhya Pradesh's poor
  Hesitant banks, institutions put roadblocks in highways proj
  ICAI teams up with banks to check bad loans
  Chamber draws up plan to tackle tiny firms' woes
  Domestic banks line up euro deals as foreign markets are all set to reopen