Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has said that the order book position of exporters are healthy and the growth story will continue to be a mixed one as outbound shipments of both value added goods and raw material will contribute to push the overall exports of the country. It also said that India has started on a good note in 2021 and exports figures so far have been encouraging.
Further, the federation said that India's export growth in food and agriculture sectors has been remarkable and many of the products including processed ones have shown encouraging trend in 2020 despite logistics challenges and extraordinary hike in freight rates. At the same time, it said the buoyancy in agriculture commodities also helped India's agriculture exports. It said ‘we need to build the momentum particularly as China's image has taken a dent subsequent to the pandemic and many countries are reluctant to imports from China particularly the edible products.’
However, it said ‘raw material exports have been a double-edge sword. While such exports do add to our export numbers and also generate economic activity, they also put pressure on logistics and deprive the country of value-added exports.’ It added that the government has to play an extremely delicate role to strike a balance between the varying interests of the two. It noted that there have been cases where the same raw material has been exported from the country and then imported back, putting pressure on logistics besides remitting avoidable freight charges.
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