The United Planters' Association of Southern India has urged the government to consider increasing customs duty on plantation items and include rubber (centrifuged latex) for exports to Russia under the rupee-rouble agreement. This is in order to safeguard the interests of the plantation sector in the country, particularly the south Indian plantation industry, it said. In its memorandum given to the minister of state for commerce and industry, Omar Abdullah, the Upasi delegation led by the chairman of Planters Association of Tamil Nadu, D.P. Maheshwari urges the minister to protect the interests of the industry.

Business Standard -India (13/12/2000)

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