CII suggests open, facilitative import environment on lines of ASEAN

12 Aug 2020 Evaluate

In order to make India an exporting hub, industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in its paper on ‘Reorienting India’s Export Endeavour in the Covid-19 World’ has suggested an open and facilitative import environment on the lines of ASEAN. The CII calls for calibrating import duties carefully and asks for policies to increase the country’s share in the global merchandise trade by 2025 to 5 per cent from 1.7 per cent and in services export to 7 per cent from 3.5 per cent.

It said there is a need for a calibrated management of the exchange rate to promote exports with strong capital inflows as the 36-currency export weighted real effective exchange rate for India stands at about 116 for June 2020, indicating overvaluation of the rupee.

It called for tapping opportunities provided by the current situation such as US-China trade war. It recommended setting up of an export task force headed by the commerce and industry minister to address all areas of export promotion with coordination of ministries, state governments, other organisations and industry bodies.

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