Commerce Ministry to work on new long-term exports strategy for 12th plan

10 May 2013 Evaluate

Concerned over the declining export growth, the Commerce Ministry has decided to work out a new ‘long term strategy’ to deal with the external sector issues like widening trade deficit and boosting shipments. The meeting, which was headed by Commerce Secretary S R Rao, identified various factors contributing to lower exports than projected and decided to formulate a discussion paper as part of the mid-term review of the existing strategy paper.

Further, the paper would also focus on the sector wise policy measures and the steps which need to be taken to boost overall exports and the discussion paper is expected to come out by June end. Moreover, the ministry would also consult with all the stakeholders, including export promotion councils and other sectoral ministries like agriculture. After receiving feedback from all concerned stakeholders, the ministry would then develop a long term strategy for the entire 12th Five Year Plan period and the draft strategy is likely to be finalized by end of December 2013.

Recently, the government had set the exports target to $325 billion for FY14 which is less than the previous fiscal's exports target of $360 billion due to the prevailing global economic slowdown which has impacted trades all over the world with India being no exception. The exports declined by 1.76% to $300.6 billion during FY13 which were the first ever decline since FY10 and pushed up the trade deficit during the fiscal to $190.91 billion from $183.4 billion in the previous financial year.

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