As per the Federation of Indian Exports Organisation (FIEO), India’s exports will fall short by about $10 billion from its set target of $325 billion for the current fiscal. During April-January’FY14, value of exports increased by 5.71% to $257.09 billion as against $243.19 billion in the same period of previous fiscal year. For the remaining two months of current fiscal, the country requires about $68 billion to reach the set target, which seems difficult.
FIEO President Rafeeq Ahmed has stated that factors like declining manufacturing growth and slow recovery in global demand are adversely impacting the country’s exports. Highlighting liquidity as a big issue for exports, Ahmed stated that pending claims of refund of service tax, duty drawback, rebate claims and VAT are impacting the domestic firms’ exports. Banks should provide credit at affordable rates to exporters. Turning to sluggish country’s infrastructure, the FIEO President asserted that inadequate infrastructure has also been affecting overseas shipments as the transactions costs is very high.
Further, Ahmed added that the government should fix targets for five years instead of annual targets for exports and work according. FIEO is presently preparing a draft for the new Foreign Trade Policy for 2014-19 including measures to boost exports, which will be submitted to the new government in the next two and a half months time.
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