India’s merchandise exports likely to touch $1 trillion by FY28: Commerce Secretary

12 Aug 2021 Evaluate

Commerce Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam has said that the country's merchandise exports are expected to touch $1 trillion by 2027-28 and the government has laid down a road map, including district as an export hub scheme, to achieve that number. He said this fiscal, the commerce ministry is aiming at $419 billion of exports and for that a detailed analysis has been carried out and the target was disaggregated at the level of country, commodity, region, and states across 31 commodity groups.

The secretary said that Indian exports have been roughly fluctuating between $290 billion and $330 billion for the last 10 years. He said the services exports' sector has ''no mother, and they are an orphan in many ways'' as it is distributed among 30 different departments of the government. He said ‘we are going to start an exercise. We export about $200 billion services every year. The target is actually to hit about $700 billion by 2027-28.’ Listing out steps which the ministry is going to take to achieve these targets, he said as Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS), and Services Exports from India Scheme (SEIS), are stopped now, the government will notify Remission of Duties and Taxes on Export Products (RoDTEP) rates probably by Friday.

About market intelligence, Subrahmanyam said that the export target has been given to 140 Indian embassies and 60 consulates and they would help in providing information like export opportunities in their countries. For the market intelligence network, he said a Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) kind of set up will be developed where exporters would get real time information. For special economic zones, he said ‘as these zones account for 30 per cent of India's total exports, some simplification is required for them, and by the end of August, we will be doing a couple of things for SEZs.’

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