Unease of doing business: How the customs department confounds all with outlandish language in notifications

As a former additional director general of foreign trade in the Department of Commerce, Ajay Srivastav is no novice when it comes to trade parlance. So, when he gets flummoxed by government notifications, it is safe to conclude there is something amiss in the system.Srivastav, a former Indian Trade Service officer who has been part of the Indian government’s WTO and FTA negotiating teams, says to make sense of a government notification issued in