Expressing hopes on good exports growth, Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan has said that India's exports are likely to touch an all-time high of $330 billion in the current fiscal ending March 31 (FY19), braving global challenges such as protectionist measures. He added that the country’s engineering exports have grown significantly in recent years, notwithstanding major global challenges.
Wadhawan said the country’s exporters have faced several challenges from the global financial crisis of 2008-09 including unilateral protectionist efforts by various countries. Though, he noted that conducive government policies have propelled the engineering sector to greater heights. Besides, India’s exports grew 9.52% to $271.8 billion during the April-January period of the current financial year, while imports rose by 11.27% to $427.73 billion.
However, US President Donald Trump has already announced to withdraw the preferential trade status granted to India given under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), asserting that New Delhi has failed to assure America of ‘equitable and reasonable’ access to its market. India exported goods worth $5.6 billion under the GSP, and the duty benefit is only $190 million annually. As many as 1,900 Indian products from sectors such as chemicals and engineering got duty-free access to the US market under the GSP, introduced in 1976.
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