Leading Scotch maker Chivas Brothers says it aims to double exports to India if New Delhi eliminates whisky tariffs, a top UK demand in bilateral trade talks ahead of prime minister Boris Johnson’s visit to India this week.
India is the world’s largest whisky consumer, and the second-largest Scotch export market by volume. But the British industry blames 150 per cent Indian tariffs on imported liquor for holding back growth in the country of 1.4bn people.
New Delhi’s levies on British whisky makers have become a sore point in UK-India trade relations and a core issue in trade talks that began earlier this year.
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