Exports likely to touch $1 trillion in 3 years: FIEO

26 Jun 2019 Evaluate

Expressing optimism over exports growth, exporters body Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has said that exports are likely to touch $1 trillion in the next 3 years with the help of the government's focus to improve logistics, ease of doing business and modern trade infrastructure. FIEO President Ganesh Kumar Gupta stated that the country has huge potential to boost its exports of goods and services from the current $535 billion.

He said with steps like special focus on cutting logistics cost and time, further improvement in ease of doing business, proper implementation of government policies for exporters and timely refund of taxes will helps the country touch $1 trillion exports in the next three years. He said the logistics time, cost and inadequate trade-related infrastructure are impacting the exports. He added that reduction of logistics cost by 10% will help boost the country's exports by about 5-8%.

In order to develop logistics sector in an integrated way, Gupta said that it is important to focus on new technology, improved investment, skilling, removing bottlenecks, improving intermodal transportation, automation, single window system for giving clearances, and simplifying processes. He also said that timely refund of taxes such as goods and services tax will help exporters deal with the liquidity crunch problem. There is also a need to focus on the export of Geographical Indication (GI) products and the government should give adequate funds for the marketing of these goods to push their shipments.

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