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Apparently the Department of Commerce has recommended that purchase of alcohol and tobacco be restricted to one bottle / carton at Indian airports in order to reduce the trade deficit.
Can I remind them that net alcohol imports were 0.09% of the total trade deficit in 2018/19
And that net tobacco exports (India is a net exporter of tobacco products) equated to 0.5% of the trade deficit.

And also that I found this out using ... Department of Commerce data.
For full transparency: here's a table with all of this and the source.

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