Incentives for Indian exporters in a couple of days: Commerce Secretary

18 Dec 2012 Evaluate

In bid to help the exporters to combat the declining exports and global slowdown, government is planning to provide exports sops. The incentives may include interest subsidy for different sectors such as engineering among the others. “In a couple of days, it will announced,” Commerce Secretary S R Rao said.

The economic crisis in major markets viz., the US and Europe, which account for about one-third of country’s total shipments, is hitting India’s exports. As a measure, the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in the Ministry has recently completed a review of different export sectors including engineering, gems and jewellery, handicraft and leather and reported that problem seems to be more for the employment oriented sectors such as handicraft and textiles.

Although exporters have been trying to find new markets within Asia, Africa and Latin America, the impact of slowdown in the western markets is likely to be significant. During April- November this fiscal, the country’s shipments have shrunk by 5.95 per cent to $189.2 billion.

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