Government has reiterated its commitment towards improving the condition of continuously declining exports. The Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the government is taking steps to increase India's total exports to $ 900 billion by 2020. Though, the target seems ambitious, with the country's exports continuing to be in the negative zone since December last year and contracting for the 10th month in a row, dipping 24.33% in September to $21.84 billion.
The minister said that the government is taking steps 'to facilitate 'Make in India' and therefore the exports. Every step that we are taking is towards achieving the target set by the Foreign Trade Policy.'
Sitharaman also said that India has an advantage in terms of young population and low cost of production as compared to China, which is becoming a costlier place to produce. She further said that China's population is moving towards retirement...There is a structural adjustment which is happening in China, that is, moving from an export led kind of an economy to a consumer led economy. “A lot of manufacturers are getting out of China because it’s no longer the place to be in and on the contrary, we have an advantage in terms of young population and cost of production being far lesser and therefore we will be able to attract a lot of manufacturers into India.”
In the start of the fiscal, the government had announced a slew of incentives and new institutional mechanisms as part of the new Foreign Trade Policy (2015-2020) to nearly double country's goods and services exports to $900 billion by 2019-2020.India exports goods worth around $300 billion per fiscal year, while services exports amounted to around $150 billion annually. India had a trade deficit of about $48 billion in 2014-15.
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