As India transitions into the new Goods & Services Tax (GST) regime to be rolled out 1 July, the tax rates for various goods have been announced. Meanwhile, the "Make in India" initiative has shown some success, but there are cerain steps needed to reform Indian agriculture. New Goods & Services Tax (GST) Regime As India transitions into the new Goods & Services Tax (GST) regime, there has been speculation regarding the tax rates on various goods. There are now five categories of taxes, and the goods are classified according to the Indian Trade Clarification (ITC) that is based on the Harmonized System of Coding (HS), which the country adopted for import/export operations and also makes it easy to identify the products.The lis...
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From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.