Amid US-China trade war, State Bank of India (SBI) Ecowrap report stated that India has benefited from this trade war by exporting more items to US and China. It said the country’s exports to China post the trade war, have grown much faster than that to the US. Overall exports to the US grew 9.46 per cent to $52.4 billion in 2018-19, for China the growth was 25.6 per cent to $16.7 billion. As per the report, looking at the products on which China and USA have imposed tariffs on each other, India has made modest gains in capturing such market.
The textile imports, particularly, of the US has shifted from China towards other countries in South Asia. Instead, cotton imports from the US to China declined for the first half 2019 compared to the same period of the previous year, while imports from other countries, including Brazil, Australia and India have increased. Thus, the report said India has benefited from US-China trade war by exporting more to China like plastic, cotton, inorganic chemicals and fish. Besides, the country has a revealed comparative advantage in some of these commodities.
In order to further boost exports, the report pointed out that easy availability of credit is of paramount importance. It added that certain measures including extension of 'Interest Equalization Scheme' to all categories of exporters and end to end digitization of the export process among others should aid India’s export credit growth.
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