The government’s announcement of a 20% reduction in electricity tariffs has been criticized as inadequate by Sanjeewa Dhammika, Secretary of the Electricity Consumers’ Association. Speaking at a press ...

A tariff is a tax on imported goods usually aimed at protecting local jobs and industries from foreign competition. The idea is that if foreign materials and products are more expensive ...

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has addressed concerns about the impact of the expected Trump tariff war on India's economy. Sitharaman, while announcing the reduction in tax, ...

The Government’s decision to effect an electricity tariff reduction by a significant 20 percent will certainly be welcomed by all power consumers in this country most notably business houses, ...

Accordingly, tariffs have been reduced by 29% for consumers who consume less than 30 units of electricity in the domestic sector. The consumers who consume between 31 – 60 units of electricity in the ...

President Trump, an avowed fan of tariffs, authorized a wave of new import duties Saturday on America's three closest trading partners — Mexico, Canada and China. Although tariffs are a bane to ...

Subscribe to the Daily News Brief. Countries around the world have long used tariffs, a tax on imports, to prop up homegrown industries by inducing citizens to buy goods produced domestically.

Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody yesterday said the government would go with the Public Utilities Commission’s (PUCSL) recommendations to implement an average 20 percent reduction of electricity ...

The United Merchants Association in Colombo yesterday urged all businessmen in the country to pass on the benefit of a 20 percent reduction in electricity tariff to consumers. When the electricity ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia plans to propose a reduction in trade tariffs to the United States through bilateral cooperation between the two countries, Indonesian Coordinating Minister for ...