'What India needs to do is to re-build those cultural links in a way it didn't.' 'Clearly, India needs to wake up and spend more time on ASEAN.'
Silver has a dual role - 60 per cent of the total silver produced is used for industrial purposes in the electrical & electronics segment and photovoltaic demand mostly for solar panels.
Demonetisation was not a good idea and the time should have been utilised instead to fine-tune the Goods and Services Tax before it was introduced, said Gita Gopinath, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics at Harvard University, in an interview with Advait Rao Palepu.
India's sovereign debt is much lower than that of other emerging economies like Argentina, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, and South Africa.
India Bullion and Jewellers Association said, self-certification of coins by refineries contravenes the basic purpose of a certifying agency.
Experts advise investors to buy at lower levels in the next few months and sell at the higher end of their range in the second half, reports Rajesh Bhayani.
Import by 4-star and 5-star export houses effectively barred from importing for domestic consumption.
Those selling ornaments with lower purity might now offer hefty discounts in order to get rid of non-hallmarked stocks
Dhanteras is considered auspicious for investment and buying gold.
Now, in many cases, they give no old jewellery but the bills they get show gold as provided by them, the jeweller's making charge and the GST on that.
Travel time, too, has not fallen much after the abolition of octroi with trucks still queued up at regional transport offices and toll tax plazas.
The cryptocurrency will fall in the RBI's domain.
The options include involving jewellers as collection centres, addressing of issues that banks have been facing and using domestically available gold for giving metal loans to jewellers for domestic sales.
Indian industry will have to deal with high raw material prices, and user industries will see their costs rising though with a lag in some cases.
Dealers with turnover of Rs 2 crore and above covered; industry says threshold too low
According to government data, the prices have still not crossed the MSPs in some mandis.
On an average most commodities are up between 20-30 per cent compared to a year ago levels.
Of the 11,000 kg imported between July 1 and August 9, around 90 per cent was brought in by two business groups which took advantage of the favourable reduction in tax incidence under GST, routing their imports through Korea.
Steps such as safeguard duty in the works to plug the route
In July alone, 2.5 tonnes of gold coins were imported so far from South Korea under zero-duty facility