State officials responded by raising duties on cloth and thread imports and setting up a commission to encourage exports.
They argue that, by raising duties, Mr Chidambaram has avoided the soft option of widening the government's deficit in order to pay for the wage increases.
As Asian exports continue to collapse, the region is responding in kind.This week Vietnam increased import tariffs on dairy products, after raising duties on paper last month.
More than 1,000 economists signed a letter asking Hoover to veto the act, pointing out the undeniable futility of trying to protect farmers' incomes by raising duties on things they did not produce, and therefore had to buy.
And ministers studiously refrained from arguing the environmental case for high fuel taxes.Ironically, it was the Conservatives who in 1993 first introduced the fuel "escalator", the policy of raising duties on petrol and diesel by more than the rate of inflation.
Beer duty will rise by 7.2% at midnight on Sunday as a result of the alcohol duty escalator, which automatically raises duty by 2% above inflation.
The recent announcement that there would be a rise in alcohol prices of 2% above inflation in the chancellor's budget, however, along with an earlier pledge to continue the alcohol duty escalator, which will raise duty on higher-strength beers from October while reducing that for lower-strength drinks, has angered some of the government's partners.
It raised duty on imports of gold jewellery to 10% from 8% last year.
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