When France imposed its 3% digital services tax on large US digitized businesses, the US trade representative responded by imposing additional duties of up to 100% tariffs on French products worth USD 2.4 billion
The introduction of new sub-section (3) to section 66 seems to be merely clarification based, and made by way of abundant caution for removal of doubts, as without it too the position of law would have been the same.
It may be noted that even after getting no place in statutory provisions, Emergency Arbitration is trying to absorb its place in the rules and procedures of several arbitration institutions.
On 26 May 2020 a three-judge bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan took note of the plight of migrant workers during the lockdown, which galvanized the judges to observe, ‘We take Suo Moto cognizance of problems and miseries of migrant labourers’.
With the lone exception of the Central Information Commission, its counterparts in the States did not display the same proclivity. As on 1 May 2020, 29 State Information Commissions were non-functional.
