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Foreign Trade Policy 2004-09- Annual Supplement 2005
2. REMOVAL OF EXPORT CESS
The Department of Commerce has taken a consistent stand from a policy perspective that taxes and duties should not be exported. The cess levied under the different Commodity Board Acts is a tax on exports, which is a handicap and a major irritant to our exporters and erodes the competitiveness of Indian agriculture exports. Department of Commerce proposes to abolish cess on export of all agricultural and plantation commodities levied under various Commodity Board Acts.
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