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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Bharat is afraid most high global artefact and oil prices and module study selection artefact duties on more anxiety products to curb inflation gripping Asia's third-largest economy, Trade Minister Anand Sharma said.

Bharat is already allowing duty-free imports of vulgar seedlike oils and is likely to continue to do so as anxiety toll rises remain in the threefold digits, a worry that has prompted foreign money managers to pull discover of the country's equities.

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Asked if Bharat would study selection more artefact duties, Sharma told Reuters New on Saturday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: "Yes, when there is a insufficiency and the inflation is high."

"Like where there is a insufficiency and we don't produce enough, it is but natural (to revilement artefact duties). Why should we artefact at such higher prices and then subsidise it for the open distribution system?"

Food inflation in Bharat inched up in mid-January to hit 15.57 proportionality cod to unseasonal rains touch output of vegetables, such as onions, potatoes and tomatoes -- key ingredients in Indian cooking.

Analysts are forecasting more welfare evaluate rises by the Reserve Bank of India, which on Tuesday raised policy rates for the ordinal time since terminal March.

Global vulgar prices soaring towards $100 a containerful are also another concern, Sharma said, cod to worries that India's nagging change inadequacy could extend further.

"Well, everybody would be (worried), especially those interdependent on imports," Sharma said. "It has been a anxiety of anxiety because in any case, we hit a change deficit."

India's artefact change inadequacy has been wide as it needs to artefact large quantities of iron and steel, chemicals and machinery to fuel a recuperate in industrial growth.

The change inadequacy crapper exacerbate India's current account inadequacy and adds to the need for Bharat to draw money inflows to finance the gap.

Policymakers hit said the deficits were a anxiety but manageable. However, some hit said the shortfalls attain it easier for Bharat to ingest a inflate in inflows of capital -- the product of super-loose monetary policy in modern economies.

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