{"id":11005,"date":"2021-07-04T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T17:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11005"},"modified":"2021-07-04T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T17:05:47","slug":"finance-ministry-denies-reports-on-halting-import-of-non-essential-luxury-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/finance-ministry-denies-reports-on-halting-import-of-non-essential-luxury-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Ministry denies reports on halting import of non-essential luxury goods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Finance says the government has not taken a decision to impose restrictions on the import of non-essential luxury goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent media reports claimed that the government is mulling the restrictions of electronic appliance including mobile phones, televisions and refrigerators as wells as perfumes, deodorants and other similar items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was further reported that steps would be taken to relax the import restrictions after foreign reserves in the country are strengthened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, a spokesperson of the finance ministry denied the media reports as \u2018baseless.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, a special press conference chaired by State Minister of Money &amp; Capital Market and State Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal is expected to take place tomorrow (July 05) to brief the public on the country\u2019s current economic situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Adaderana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Finance says the government has not taken a decision to impose&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11007,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions\/11007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}