Amid rising concern over the continuous decline in exports, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a meeting next week with export bodies including export promotion councils, in order to get their assessment of the global situation and look into the issue and to check whether there is a need for further government intervention. This is the first interaction that Sitharaman has scheduled with exporters after the Union Budget. The Minister has further clarified that she wants to meet the representatives from all the important sectors and it is not for any specific sector.
Over the past few months, exporters have sought a number of measures, such as extension of the Merchandise Export from India Scheme to more items, countries and also merchant exporters from identified sectors. Importing capital goods at reduced import duties under the Export Promotion Capital Goods Scheme have asked for a longer time period to meet their export obligation under the scheme due to falling exports. All such demands will be examined in the meeting.
According to estimates made by exporters’ body Federation of India Export Organisation (FIEO), Exports in the current fiscal will be around $260 billion which is about $50 billion short of exports worth $310 billion in 2014-15 and $314 billion in 2013-14. Cumulative value of exports for the period April-February 2015-16 was $ 238418.11 million, down by 16.73 percent as against $ 286305.92 million.
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