December 03, 2008

India to import 7 million tonne cement from Pakistan

It is reported that, after banning export of cement to control inflation, India plans to increase import of cement from Pakistan and buy a total of about 7 million tonnes from Pakistan in 2008-09 fiscal.

A senior commerce ministry official said that "We have already imported 2.1 million tonnes of cement from Pakistan and we plan to import about 4,000 tonnes every day starting May 1st 2008. In total, we plan to import about 7 million tonnes of cement by 2008. However, there are some infrastructures constraints which we need to address."