Mumbai, April 25 -- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal asked domestic industry to prefer domestic suppliers over imports, speaking at the India Steel 2025 summit.

"You should see your supply chains. Wherever there is an Indian supply, you will give preference to that Indian supply, and not conveniently import your requirements to the detriment of some other Indian company or manufacturer," the minister said.

India this week imposed a temporary 12 per cent safeguard duty to protect domestic steel industry from dumping and to curb unwanted imports.

The minister highlighted an instance where the government had asked the industry to support Indian metcoke manufacturers, but the industry did not paid heed to the request. As a resul...