Despite various concerns, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (Brexit), has not come in the way of India’s engineering exports to UK, Germany and France. As per the Engineering Exports Promotion Council (EEPC), India mostly defied the general declining trend, giving positive growth to the manufacturing and high-tech exports, as Engineering exports to Britain went up by over 12 per cent to $ 215 million in July from $ 192 million in the same month of the previous year.
Not only Britain, shipments to Germany too improved handsomely, close to $ 200 million, rising by over 19 per cent year on year from $168 million in July 2015. Exports to France increased by 2.29 per cent to $ 86 million from $ 84 million for the period under review.
However, according to EEPC, despite reporting a rise in overall exports for the consecutive two months of May and June 2016, total exports slipped yet again in July contracting by 12.11 percent as against a positive growth by 2.57 percent in the previous month. Cumulative engineering exports continued to decline as engineering exports for the first four months of the current fiscal dropped by 5.82 percent to $ 20.27 billion in April-July 2016-17 from $ 21.53 billion during April-July 2015-16.
Chairman of the EEPC India, TS Bhasin said that, from the engineering exports point of view, it is important to see that our shipments went up to UK despite about 11 per cent trade-weighted drop in prices of Pound Sterling, making Britain's imports expensive. The positive trend to UK and other key European markets comes in the face of an overall negative growth in India's engineering exports.
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