Government targets to double exports to $500 billion by 2014

19 Dec 2011 Evaluate

Even as uncertainty over the Euro-zone debt crisis looms and domestic economy continues to slow, Indian government remains confident of doubling exports to $500 billion by 2013-14, with a compound average growth of 26.7% per annum. The commerce ministry’s goal in the medium-term as outlined in the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP 2009-14) is to double India’s exports of goods and services by 2014 with a long term objective of doubling India’s share in global trade by the end of 2020 through appropriate policy support.

Union Commerce Minister, Anand Sharma in his strategy for doubling exports has outlined four pronged strategy namely, Product Strategy; Market Strategy; Technologies and R&D and Building a Brand image. The strategy paper underscored that considerable growth potential is likely in engineering goods, basic chemicals and organic and inorganic chemicals, pharmaceuticals (including biotech) and electronics to boost exports.

The commerce minister also stated that the government will provide necessary policy support needed to realize the ambitious export targets for 2013-14 and beyond. The government proposes to continue the existing incentive schemes and aims to follow a stable policy environment while providing preferential access to new markets and putting in place conducive trading arrangements.

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