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India's Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) initiated anti-dumping investigation No. 6/17/2026-DGTR (SETU Case ID: AD/OI/016/2026) on 22 June 2026 into imports of Cold Rolled Grain Oriented Electrical Steel (CRGO) and Amorphous Metal (AM) originating in or exported from China PR, Japan, Korea RP, and Russia, on application by JSW JFE Electrical Steel Nashik Pvt Ltd (a JV between JSW Steel and Japan's JFE Steel Corporation). The period of investigation (POI) covers 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026; the injury analysis period spans 2022-23 through the POI. CRGO is the magnetic-core input for every power and distribution transformer, and amorphous metal is the next-generation low-loss core alternative; together they constitute grid-critical capital-equipment feedstock for India's electricity-system expansion, making this probe analytically distinct from — and more strategically sensitive than — the CRNO definitive-duty case (Notification 35/2025-Customs (ADD)).

India's Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the Bharat Audyogik Vikas Yojna (BHAVYA) on 18 March 2026 with a ₹33,660 crore (~USD 4.0bn) outlay over six years (FY 2026-27 to FY 2031-32) to develop 100 plug-and-play industrial parks of 100-1,000 acres each across all states and Union Territories. Financial assistance of up to ₹1 crore per acre supports core infrastructure (internal roads, underground utilities, drainage, common treatment, ICT), value-added infrastructure (ready-built sheds, built-to-suit units, testing labs, warehousing), and social infrastructure (worker housing). The scheme is sector-agnostic and is implemented by the National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC) under DPIIT, with states forming Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) and committing to single-window clearances. The first phase will deliver 50 parks.

India's DGTR issued final findings on 18 March 2026 recommending anti-dumping duties on cryogenic Liquefied Natural Gas Fuel Tanks (LFT) originating in or exported from China PR, after determining that Chinese-origin LFTs were being sold in India at dumped prices causing material injury to domestic manufacturers. The investigation was initiated in December 2024 following a petition by Inox India Ltd. The DGTR found price undercutting and suppression of domestic prices, with the Finance Ministry to issue the implementing customs notification.

On 4 February 2026, East Coast Railway — a zonal railway of India's Ministry of Railways — launched a tender for the design and construction, on an EPC basis, of loop lines at existing stations, valued at INR 127.80 crore (approx. USD 15.4 million). The tender embeds a domestic-content preference under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017 (as amended), consistent with the wider batch of India localisation-preference tenders already tracked in this register. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented on 4 February 2026.

NHPC Limited issued Notice Inviting e-Tender No. 2026_NHPC_894115_1 (registered ~12 January 2026, corrigendum 19 January 2026) for "Development of Power Evacuation Infrastructure for 1200MW Jalaun Solar Park" — three 33/400 kV pooling substations and associated transmission works for the Bundelkhand Saur Urja Limited (BSUL) solar park, a joint venture between NHPC and the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency (UPNEDA). Global Trade Alert values the tender at INR 614.21 crore. Per NHPC's standing compliance with the Government of India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, bidders must certify minimum local content, giving Class-I local suppliers a bid-evaluation preference margin. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 15 January 2026.

MPPKVVCL, a Madhya Pradesh state power-distribution utility, issued a tender for smart prepaid electricity meters (advanced metering infrastructure appointment) valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,498 crore. The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers in the instruments/electricity-and-gas procurement category. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 9 January 2026 — a separate lot from the same utility's companion INR 1,329 crore smart-meter tender filed the same day.

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India's primary nuclear research organisation, published an engineering-procurement- construction (EPC) tender (Tender ID BARC(V)/CES/IPR/EPC/208) on 6 January 2026 for an isotopes production reactor at Visakhapatnam that embeds a domestic-supplier local-content requirement and bid-evaluation preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced and implemented the same day. This follows the same pattern as the register's other single-tender DPIIT Make-in-India filings (NHAI, NHIDCL, NEEPCO, UPMRC, BMRCL, NHPC, MPPKVVCL), applied here to nuclear infrastructure procurement.

NHIDCL issued a Request for Proposal on 2 January 2026 for Package-1 (Km 0+000 to Km 45+645, project cost ~INR 4,734.24 crore) of the Mawlyngkhung (Meghalaya)–Panchgram (Assam) greenfield high-speed corridor, to be built on a hybrid annuity basis. The tender embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, applying a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers in the civil works and general-construction categories. Bid submission deadline is 8 July 2026.

The Asian Development Bank signed a USD 331 million financing package with ReNew Vyoman Power Private Limited, a subsidiary of Indian independent power producer ReNew, to fund an 837 MWp solar-wind hybrid plant paired with a 415 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Andhra Pradesh. ADB describes it as the first round-the-clock (24/7) peak renewable energy project it has financed, with the BESS enabling 300 MW of guaranteed baseload/peak delivery. Global Trade Alert logs the deal as a "red" (certainly harmful) state-linked lending intervention on the standard grounds that below-market multilateral development-bank financing to a named commercial producer is a potential trade- and competition-distorting subsidy.

India's CBIC, via Notification No. 46/2025-Customs dated 29 October 2025 (issued under Section 25(1) of the Customs Act 1962 and Section 124 of the Finance Act 2021), reinstated a combined 30% import duty on yellow peas (Tariff item 0713 10 10) — 10% Basic Customs Duty plus 20% Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess (AIDC) — ending the duty-free import window that had been in place since December 2023. The new rates apply to consignments with a Bill of Lading issued on or after 1 November 2025. A companion Notification No. 47/2025-Customs (same date) grandfathers the prior nil-duty treatment for shipments with a Bill of Lading issued on or before 31 October 2025. The measure is aimed at containing pulse imports to support domestic prices and pulse growers ahead of India's rabi (winter pulse) harvest.

India's Ministry of Railways issued a tender for construction of railway infrastructure between Borivali and Virar stations (part of the Mumbai Suburban Railway 5th/6th line quadrupling project) that embeds a domestic-supplier preference margin under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, restricting or giving a bid-evaluation advantage to Class-I local suppliers across civil-engineering and general-construction categories. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 27 August 2025; the underlying tender reference and contract value sit behind GTA's account-gated view and were not independently confirmed.

India's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved an INR 8,146.21 crore (~USD 980 million) investment proposal for the 700 MW (4x175 MW) Tato-II Hydro Electric Project in Shi Yomi district, Arunachal Pradesh, to be built over 72 months by a joint venture between North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd (NEEPCO) and the Government of Arunachal Pradesh. The Government of India component consists of INR 436.13 crore in central financial assistance toward the state's equity share plus INR 458.79 crore in budgetary support for enabling infrastructure (roads, bridges, transmission lines) — together INR 894.92 crore (~USD 108 million) of direct central subsidy. Arunachal Pradesh receives 12% free power and a 1% local-area-development-fund allocation from project output.

On 4 August 2025, IRCON International Limited — a Government of India public-sector enterprise under the Ministry of Railways — launched a tender for the manufacture, supply, transportation and delivery of 60 kg Prime Rail (13M length) of Grade IRS-T-1, valued at INR 97.37 crore (approx. USD 11.7 million). The tender embeds a domestic-content preference under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017 (as amended), consistent with the wider batch of India localisation-preference tenders already tracked in this register. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented on 4 August 2025.

NICDIT Zaheerabad Industrial Smart City Limited (NICZISCL) — the special-purpose vehicle developing the Zaheerabad Industrial Smart City node of the Hyderabad-Nagpur Industrial Corridor in Telangana — published a tender for infrastructure works valued by Global Trade Alert at INR 1,206 crore (~USD 145m). The tender embeds a domestic-supplier bid-evaluation preference under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017, across civil-engineering, general-construction, and water-distribution categories. GTA records the intervention as announced/implemented 28 July 2025.

Bengaluru Smart Infrastructure Limited (B-SMILE), a Karnataka state-government special-purpose vehicle, issued a Notice Inviting Tender (ref. B-SMILE/SE/TEND/03/2025-26, dated 14 July 2025) for an International Competitive Bidding, single-stage two-cover road construction contract valued at INR 8,770 crore, embedding a domestic-supplier local-content preference under India's Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order, 2017. Bidding was conducted through the Karnataka government's e-procurement (KPP) portal, with tenders due 2 September 2025. Global Trade Alert records the intervention as announced/implemented 15 July 2025; the exact preference-margin percentage and full NIT text sit behind GTA's account-gated detail view.

The Government of Maharashtra, Transport Department, notified the Maharashtra Electric Vehicle Policy 2025 on 23 May 2025 (Government Resolution No. 202505231834008229) after Cabinet approval on 28 April 2025, with retroactive effect from 1 April 2025 through 31 March 2030. The five-year policy carries an INR 1,993 crore (~USD 235 mn) headline outlay — comprising approximately INR 1,740 crore in purchase incentives, INR 100 crore in charging-infrastructure viability gap funding, and balance allocations for manufacturing incentives, R&D, skilling, and scrappage support — representing a 114% increase over the INR 930 crore outlay of the prior 2021–2025 policy. Targets include ~30% of all new vehicle registrations in Maharashtra to be electric by 2030, a charging station every 25 km on state and national highways, and a 10% base-price subsidy on electric two- and three-wheelers, private and public buses, and passenger vehicles (with an additional 5% top-up for goods-carrying 3W/4W, agricultural tractors, and combine harvesters). The instrument is sectoral and EV-only — distinct from the umbrella Maharashtra Industry, Investment & Services Policy 2025 (filed separately).

The Union Cabinet approved the PM Electric Drive Revolution in Innovative Vehicle Enhancement (PM E-DRIVE) Scheme on 11 September 2024, with the Ministry of Heavy Industries notifying it via Gazette S.O. 4259(E) on 29 September 2024. The two-year programme (1 October 2024 – 31 March 2026) has a total outlay of Rs 10,900 crore (~USD 1.3 bn). It subsumes the EMPS-2024 stop-gap and replaces FAME-II (which expired on 31 March 2024). Demand incentives cover e-2W, e-3W (incl. e-rickshaws and cargo), e-trucks, e-ambulances and e-buses; supply-side outlays fund 14,028 e-buses for state transport undertakings (via CESL aggregation), Rs 2,000 crore for EV public charging stations, and Rs 780 crore for upgrading MHI testing agencies.