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Indian government had released a notification to levy excise duty on jute products from Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives in 2015, it only started enforcing the notification from December 15 last year, according to jute traders.

Following, the enforcement of the excise duty of 12.5 percent on different jute products like jute sacks and hessian jute fabric. Nepali traders said that jute export to India has been halted completely for more than three weeks

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The Indian jute industry at present is beleaguered due to shortage of orders. The industry maintains that dearth of orders has forced it to cut back on production, causing a spate of work suspensions.
 
The Jute Commissioner’s office who had begun investigation against certain mills against whom there were reports of malpractices, said on Monday that the complaints were mainly against the import of jute bags from Nepal and Bangladesh.