Shipki La border traders suspend fast over IGST; Sukhu to take up issue with Sitharaman

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Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu will raise the issue of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST) levied on traditional border barter trade between India and China through Shipki La in Kinnaur with the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on September 7. Though the border trade resumed after six years on August 1, the traders decided to boycott it following the imposition of the ISGT, terming it economically unviable. The association had brought the matter to the notice of the state government so that it could be taken up with the Central Government. After assurance from the state government, the…

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