{"id":369199,"date":"2025-12-25T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369199\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:11:14","slug":"india-announces-reforms-to-simplify-import-checks-as-it-eyes-us-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369199\/","title":{"rendered":"India announces reforms to simplify import checks as it eyes US trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India announced \u200don Wednesday reforms to cut red tape \u2060and simplify its <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/import-quality-checks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">import quality checks<\/a>, addressing a concern raised by the U.S. \u200cover what \u200cit described as the South Asian country&#8217;s &#8220;burdensome&#8221; \u200cimport-quality requirements. <\/p>\n<p>New Delhi and Washington have been working to thrash out a trade agreement, which India hopes will \u200bbring relief from \u200ba 50% tariff imposed by President \u200cDonald \u200dTrump on some of \u200dits main exports as punishment for \u200cits Russian oil purchases. <\/p>\n<p>The reforms on import checks include reduced paperwork, shorter timelines, and fewer inspections for quality approvals, the trade ministry said in a \u200dstatement.<br \/>&#8220;The reforms aim to accelerate processes, reduce turnaround times, \u200dand leverage \u2060technology-driven \u2060systems to make quality assurance faster, more transparent, and more accessible for enterprises, institutions, and citizens,&#8221; said <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/jaxay-shah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaxay Shah<\/a>, the chairman of the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/quality-council-of-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quality Council of India<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: India announced \u200don Wednesday reforms to cut red tape \u2060and simplify its import quality checks, addressing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,181128,181127,181132,181130,181129,181131,3061],"class_list":["post-369199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-import-quality-checks","tag-india-import-reforms","tag-jaxay-shah","tag-quality-council-of-india","tag-tariff-on-indian-exports","tag-technology-driven-quality-assurance","tag-us-india-trade-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}