MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A000800190001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 23, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA - SOUTH ASIA
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Middle East - Africa Division, Office of Current Intelligence,
with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
Nepal: Increased Prices for Indian Goods . . . 4
Apr 23, 1975
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Nepal
Increased Prices for Indian Goods
India recently notified Nepal that commodities
it has been supplying at subsidized domestic prices
will henceforth be priced at parity with other
Indian exports. This move, which follows earlier
cutbacks in sales of petroleum, paper and flour,
will increase Nepal's import bill by between $3.5
and over $7 million. Inadequate data precludes an
accurate assessment of the economic impact, even by
the Nepalese, but foreign exchange reserves are
large enough to allow the flow of imports to continue.
Officially--and quite plausibly--India attributes
the changes to economic necessity. Nonetheless, the
fact that India's tightening of its trade policy with
Nepal intensified following anti-Indian demonstrations
in Kathmandu last summer serves to remind Nepal of
its economic vulnerability and the need for discretion.
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