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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
