The Finance Ministry has lowered the basic customs duty on select items such as apples, almonds, lentils and chikpeas imported from the US, showed an official order.
As per the order, customs duty on lentils imported from the US has now been fully exempted. Earlier it was at 20%. Similarly, import duty on almond has been lowered to 35% from 41% earlier. In the case of apples, the duty has been lowered to 15% from the earlier 35%, tax experts explained. In the case of chikpeas, an import duty of 10% will be applicable at par with imports from other nations.