Indicating reforms initiated over the last couple of years, favorable oil prices and the trade war between China and US, Union Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan has said he is expecting that the country's exports in the current fiscal year (FY19) would surpass the earlier peak of $314 billion in 2013-14 (FY14). He mentioned ‘This year, we are very confident that we will go past our earlier peak, our earlier peak of 2013-14. We will go past that peak quite comfortably this year’. The achievement comes against the backdrop of a very challenging global environment. The exports, in general, have been growing almost consistently for the last three years.
He further said pharma, engineering products, petroleum products, gems and jewellery, leather products and even textiles will be among sectors that contribute to the growth in the exports. He hoped the IT exports would grow at around 10% which has been the trend for many years.
Moreover, he underlined ‘India is doing better, because of lot of effort which has been put into it, effort on the policy side, effort on the regulatory side, in terms of ease of doing business, in terms of simplification of procedures. There are so many interventions, starting with making credit available at affordable rates’. Besides, he also said the Current Account Deficit is well under control.
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