{"id":989376,"date":"2026-02-02T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989376"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:05:45","slug":"union-budget-2026-customs-reforms-to-speed-up-approvals-with-use-of-tech-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/union-budget-2026-customs-reforms-to-speed-up-approvals-with-use-of-tech-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Budget 2026: Customs reforms to speed up approvals with use of tech, AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Government on Sunday unveiled a string of steps for Customs and central excise, measures that will help in simplifying the tariff structure, support domestic manufacturing, and promote export competitiveness against the backdrop of global trade tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Steps were also taken to promote ease of living with FM Nirmala Sitharaman proposing to reduce the tariff rate on all dutiable goods imported for personal use from 20% to 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Government on Sunday unveiled a string of steps for Customs and central excise, measures that will help in simplifying the tariff structure, support domestic manufacturing, and promote export competitiveness against the backdrop of global trade tensions. Steps were also taken to promote ease of living with FM Nirmala Sitharaman proposing to reduce the tariff rate on all dutiable goods imported for personal use from 20% to 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}