
Darvas way ⭐
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Darvas way ⭐
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#thebottomline India Raised the Gold Wall After two years of cutting import duties on gold from 15% to 6% — India just went back to 15%. Basic Customs Duty jumps to 10%. AIDC raised. GST holds at 3%. Effective landed cost: 13-14%. A 400-450 basis point hit. ₹4,000-4,500 more per 10 grams. The trigger is not complicated. Gold imports hit $72 billion in FY26 — 1.8% of GDP, largest import category after crude. The rupee is at 95. Crude above $110. CAD heading toward 2% of GDP with no relief on either front. This isn't revenue maximisation. It's macro defence. The UAE corridor narrows — but doesn't close. CEPA TRQ gold gets a 1 percentage point concession — approximately 9% versus the old 5%. Licences run till June 30. The Dubai arbitrage tightens. It doesn't disappear. The smuggler's calculus just changed. At 6%, the informal premium was too thin to justify the risk — that was the entire logic of the 2023-24 liberalisation. At 14%, the grey market gap reopens. Against zero to 3% duties in neighbouring markets, the arbitrage is wide enough to fund a parallel supply chain. The government closed one leak and reopened another simultaneously. The jewellery sector gets hit from both ends. Wedding season peaks in six weeks — at ₹4,500 more per 10 grams, discretionary purchases compress immediately. The domestic supply premium building during five weeks of zero bank imports now collides with a duty hike that makes restocking more expensive. Inventory built at 6% duty sits on balance sheets at a landed cost the new regime just made obsolete. The rupee needed this. The wedding season didn't. The smuggler is already doing the math.













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Indian #rupee opened at a record low of 95.50, slipping 0.2% from its previous close, while bears tightened their grip on the market as the Sensex plunged over 650 points and the Nifty fell below 23,650.








