No daaru: Import curbs cast shadow on Christmas for US diplomats

December 24, 2013 14:40

With the Indian government withdrawing the facility of duty-free imports of food items and liquor in retaliation to the "ill-treatment" meted out to diplomat Devyani Khobragade, the families of American diplomats will have to make "alternative arrangements" for the Christmas-New Year week.

American employees at the US embassy in Delhi and consulates in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad used to get imported food and liquor at much cheaper rates -- sometimes half the market price -- since they could import these items without paying taxes and duties. Read

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