{"id":42181,"date":"2018-09-15T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T11:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=42181"},"modified":"2018-09-15T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T11:13:35","slug":"govt-to-impose-restrictions-on-non-essential-imports-jaitley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/govt-to-impose-restrictions-on-non-essential-imports-jaitley\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to impose restrictions on non-essential imports: Jaitley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<br \/>\nThe government on Friday decided to relax norms for raising overseas borrowing and impose restrictions on the non-essential imports as part of efforts to check rising current account deficit amid falling rupee.<\/p>\n<p>These decisions were taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review the state of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Modi was briefed by Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel and officials of the Finance Ministry, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters here after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The decisions are aimed at checking the CAD and increase foreign exchange inflows, Jaitley said.<\/p>\n<p>The government would also take steps to promote exporters and restrict non-essential imports, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jaitley, however, did not disclose items on which import restrictions would be imposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo address the issue of expanding CAD, the government will take necessary steps to cut down non-essential imports and increase exports. The commodities of which imports will be cut down will be decided after consultations with concerned ministries and will be WTO-compliant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi The government on Friday decided to relax norms for raising overseas borrowing and impose restrictions on the non-essential imports as part of efforts to check rising current account deficit amid falling rupee. These decisions were taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review the state of the economy. Modi [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42183,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42181\/revisions\/42183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}