Indian exports to automatically increase if products are good, competitively priced: Goyal

06 Oct 2020 Evaluate

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has said that Indian exports will automatically increase if the products are good and competitively priced and that entrepreneurs should not think that subsidies are the only solution. He asserted that the country has the capability to become a global player in many sectors, and underscored the need for bolstering manufacturing.

Goyal has stated that sectors having the potential to become globally competitive needed to be identified. He said there is no need to segregate between products for exports and domestic sector. He also said ‘we require quality, good technology and scale, though some support may be needed at times’.

Underscoring the need for ‘bolder ideas’ for signing Free Trade Agreements (FTA), the minister said India could leverage the lower labour cost to promote its products. He also said ‘we need to penetrate the developed world where we can leverage on the lower labour cost or our skills. When we are going to try and export to Africa and Chile, we'll be competing with people who are already very low-cost & low quality.  He said India can surely be part of the global supply chain and also a reliable partner, and added that building capabilities, scale and good manufacturing practices are the need of the hour.

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