India to impose up to 30 per cent tariffs on some steel imports from China, Vietnam

Welded stainless steel pipes and tubes exported by China, the world’s largest producer of steel, and Vietnam, will be taxed for the next five years, the order from New Delhi issued on Tuesday showed.

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However, Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday that New Delhi was “not closed to business from China” but noted the issue was rather in which sectors and on what terms Beijing did business, without elaborating.