| Draw export strategy of $300 bn: Assocham to govt | 20-NOV-09 |
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| India should aim to increase its merchandise exports to $300 billion by 2014 and adopt a multi-pronged strategy to accelerate competitiveness of domestic goods in global markets, Assocham said. |
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| Ore exports to China may cost more | 15-NOV-09 |
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| India’s iron ore price for cash sales to China may rise about 4 per cent this month as supplies shrink from one of India’s biggest producing states following a government directive to mines to halt work. |
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| Cashew kernel exports dip 7.6% | 13-NOV-09 |
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| The recessionary trend in major consuming countries, such as the US, Europe and Australia, and marginal appreciation of the rupee against the dollar have affected the country’s cashew kernel exports during the current financial year. |
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| Pomegranate exports hit all-time low | 13-NOV-09 |
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| Pomegranate exports from Karnataka have hit an all-time low of 1,865 metric tonnes during 2008-09, a drop of 41 per cent compared to previous fiscal. The state, which had seen a peak export of 30,000 tonnes in 2004-05, has been witnessing drop in both production and exports since then due to the attack of devastating bacterial blight disease (BBD) in all the growing areas of the state. |
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| Suspend cotton exports to help textiles ind: FIEO | 12-NOV-09 |
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| Exporters today appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to suspend export of raw cotton saying rising prices of the commodity has become a double whammy for textiles industry, hit by the global demand slump. |
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| Exports still in red, at $14.1 bn in Oct | 12-NOV-09 |
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| India’s exports for October stood at $12.5 billion, down 11.4 per cent from $14.1 billion in the same month last year, on the back of weaker demand for Indian goods in the traditional markets of the US, EU and Japan. |
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| Cotton exports to double on China, Pak demand | 12-NOV-09 |
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| Cotton exports from India, the second-biggest grower, will more than double this crop season as China and Pakistan seek more fiber to make up for a shortfall in supplies from the US, a government official said. |
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| Mills seek ban on cotton exports | 11-NOV-09 |
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| “The actual cotton production would slip to 26 million bales (one bale is 165 kg) this year, as against 29 million bales produced during the last season due to drought and floods in all major cotton-growing states. Of the production during 2009-10 season, only around 16 million bales are expected to be of above average quality. If this cotton is exported as against the domestic requirement of 24 million bales, the Indian textile industry would lose its competitive edge in the global market,” R K Agarwal, member of Sima, and chairman of AP Spinning Mills Association, told reporters here on Tuesday. |
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| SEZs post Rs 89,000-cr exports in Apr-Sept | 06-NOV-09 |
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| Bucking the trend, exports from the country’s 101 operational special economies zones (SEZ) topped Rs 89,000 crore during the first six months (April-September) of the current financial year, compared to Rs 99,689 crore worth of exports in the entire 2008-09.
Out of the Rs 89,000 crore, around Rs 25,000 crore worth of exports took place from government SEZs, Rs 9,000 crore from state and private SEZs and the remaining approximately Rs 45, 000 crore from SEZs that are set up under the |
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