Vikas Dhoot

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Vikas Dhoot is The Hindu’s Business Editor. Prior to this, he was The Hindu’s Economics Editor since 2015, and has also served as the Resident Editor of The Hindu’s Mumbai edition. In a journalistic career spanning over 25 years, he has previously worked with Business Standard, Businessworld, The Indian Express, The Financial Express and The Economic Times, and has written extensively on India’s financial markets, social security, governance, the political economy and economic policy.

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Only 95,000 tonnes of steel were exported to the U.S last year from India’s total output of 145 million tonnes.

India remains stoic on Trump’s steel tariffs, latest in series of shocks

Vikas Dhoot,Suhasini Haidar

U.S. President Donald Trump with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mr. Modi’s bilateral meetings with Mr. Trump may include some offers for further reductions in import duties on items of U.S. interest such as pecan nuts.

India may offer lower duties on pecan nuts to cool Trump’s tariff barbs

Vikas Dhoot,Suhasini Haidar

Seeing signs of a consumption recovery, the private sector is reviewing capacities, the Finance Minister said.

‘Interest rate cut, tax stimulus to revive demand, investments’

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra and Directors at a meeting in New Delhi on February 8, 2025.

RBI in sync with government on growth focus, says Sitharaman

“Incomes must rise with the economy, and so will the taxes,” Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said. File

‘Monetary and fiscal policies need to work in tandem’

‘₹40,000 crore of tax stimulus may reach banks’

Photo used for representation purpose only.

Amid global tumult, Rupee breaches 87 against dollar

While India’s peak custom duty rate is now 70%, the import duties on the top 30 items exported by the U.S. to India — led by crude petroleum, coking coal, aeroplanes, and liquefied natural gas — are minimal, in the range of zero to 7.5%, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs chairman Sanjay Kumar Agarwal said. Photo: PIB

Amidst Trump’s tariff war, India slashes peak tariffs from 150% to 70%, to ‘correct bad optics’

Union Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey.

Union Budget 2025: Tax break will give a fillip to slowing economy, says Centre

Union Budget 2025: Tax bonanza for middle class

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GST receipts rebound to second-highest peak in January

Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran addresses the media at National Media Centre, in New Delhi on January 31, 2025.

Economy’s fundamentals robust amid ‘strong downsides’: Economic Survey

From 2nd to 3rd quarter symbol. Businessman turns a wooden cube and changes words 'Q2' to 'Q3'. Beautiful yellow table, white background. Business, happy 3rd quarter Q3 concept, copy space.

Poor demand hits investments by private sector in Q3

Feeling the pinch: The middle class is pinning hopes on relief from
food inflation and higher disposable incomes, RBI officials said.

‘To fix economy, boost consumption’

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