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New Foreign Trade Policy to focus on measures to boost India’s exports

29 Apr 2014 Evaluate

The new foreign trade policy (FTP) to be introduced this year will focus on measures to boost India's exports and reduce dependence on imports. Additional Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Sumeet Jerath has asserted that India being a part of World Trade Organization (WTO) cannot ignore supporting import substitution and the focus of the new policy would be to strongly promote both exports and imports with significantly substantial focus on exports. The five-year FTP (2009-14) ended on March 31 and the new government after the general election will introduce new FTP for the period 2014-19.

Jerath further asserted that under the new FTP, old regulations and procedures governing exporters will be changed and pruned to suit the exports requirements of the modern times so that the realistic targets are made achievable. He also informed that DGFT will soon issue a report which will suggest way forward as to how the new government should tackle the issues relating to higher transaction cost to enable exporters achieve the desired level of exports to both developed and developing economies. New FTP will be aimed to enhance India’s exports share in global trade to over 5 percent from current level of 2 percent.

The policy may also review the current schemes which are not in compliance with the World Trade Organization (WTO) norms. According to global exports norms, India cannot provide export subsidies to a sector if outbound shipments from those particular segment crosses 3.5 percent share in the global market.

It has become imperative to boost country’s exports which have been hovering near $300 billion over the last three fiscal years. In FY14, India's exports grew marginally by 3.96 percent to $312.35 billion, which was below the set export target at $325 billion.

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