{"id":999789,"date":"2026-03-28T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999789"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:20:19","slug":"india-signals-openness-to-extending-tariff-free-deal-on-ecommerce-two-diplomats-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/28\/india-signals-openness-to-extending-tariff-free-deal-on-ecommerce-two-diplomats-say\/","title":{"rendered":"India signals openness to extending tariff-free deal on ecommerce, two diplomats say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has signalled it may drop its opposition to the extension of a global agreement to not impose tariffs on electronic transmissions such as digital downloads and streaming, two senior diplomats said. India&#8217;s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal had on Thursday cast doubt on US efforts to permanently extend the moratorium &#8211; which is set to expire this month &#8211; during a World \u200cTrade Organization meeting in \u2060Cameroon \u2060this week, saying it warranted &#8220;careful reconsideration.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has signalled it may drop its opposition to the extension of a global agreement to not impose tariffs on electronic transmissions such as digital downloads and streaming, two senior diplomats said. India&#8217;s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal had on Thursday cast doubt on US efforts to permanently extend the moratorium &#8211; which is set to expire this month &#8211; during a World \u200cTrade Organization meeting in \u2060Cameroon \u2060this week, saying it warranted &#8220;careful reconsideration.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999789","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}