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Friday, August 7, 1998
2000 items on free import list
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, August 6: Vegetables, fruits, tea, meat, coffee, spices and other processed foods are among the 2000 items that will now be freely importable from countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) -- Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.In a notification today, the Government formalised the announcement of the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, at the recent SAARC summit, removing all import restrictions on these items under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) on balance of payments grounds. However, import curbs on items restricted on non-BoP grounds will continue. Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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