Besides, the edible oil sector as a whole has to contend with no fewer than 50-odd slabs of import duties, though its overall import basket comprises mainly palm oils and relatively small volumes of soybean and a few other oils.

 What is worse, most of these duties are altered arbitrarily several times a year, exposing the government

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First Published: Nov 20 2003 | 12:00 AM IST

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