Page 24 - India Trade

Commerce ministry starts Covid-19 helpdesk to resolve import, export issues

This relates to issues such as customs clearance delays and banking matters

Exports rise to $13.7 billion during Apr 1-14: Commerce Ministry data

Healthy growth rate in sectors such as engineering and gems and jewellery helped

Exports up 60% in March at $34.5 bn, but decline by 7% in FY21: Govt data

Trade deficit during March 2021 widened to $13.93 billion from $9.98 billion in March 2020

RBI's accommodative policy stance reassuring to industry, trade: Chambers

The Reserve Bank of India's decision to continue with the accommodative policy stance is reassuring to the industry and trade, according to chambers

India, UAE, Israel's trilateral trade could reach $110 bn by 2020: Report

Tapping into the mutual strengths of India, Israel and the UAE could propel the trilateral trade between the countries to a high of $110 billion by 2030, said top diplomats

Engineering exports jump 70% in March marking a major rebound

Exports of engineering goods from the country recorded an impressive 70.28 per cent growth in March.

India declines to comment on Pakistan's flip-flop on bilateral trade

India on Friday declined to comment on Pakistan's flip-flop on plans to go for limited imports of sugar and cotton from the country.

Pakistan's Cabinet makes U-turn on plan to resume trade with India

The India-Pakistan cease-fire marked a milestone in secret talks brokered by the UAE, Bloomberg reported earlier this month

Suez Canal blockage likely to impact India's trade, say analysts

Great Eastern Shipping is still evaluating the impact, said a source close to the development

India's exports during March 1-14 increase 17% to $14 billion

Exports are showing healthy signs of revival

Trade deficit narrows to $12 bn in February, exports at $27.93 bn

Exports of items such as iron-ore, rice, cereal preparations meat, dairy and poultry products, spices, drugs and pharmaceuticals, handloom products, coal and other ores continued to rise

Logistics policy to go to Cabinet for approval, aims to ease goods movement

Indian industry pays a high logistics cost, hurting the competitiveness of domestic goods in the international market.

Import tariff needs to be halved to for competitiveness: Montek Ahluwalia

Bringing down import tariffs by at least 50 per cent holds the key to achieve competitiveness in India, Ahluwalia said

India exports 87,000 tons of onion in Jan-Feb after ban lifted

India has exported 87,000 tonnes of onion in the January-February period after the ban was lifted in view of good kharif crop estimates

Merchants almost halt exports to Iran as its rupee reserves fall: Report

Iran's rupee reserves in India's UCO and IDBI Bank, the two lenders authorised to facilitate rupee trade, have depleted significantly

Non-basmati rice exports increase to Rs 26,058 cr during April-Jan

This compares to Rs 11,543 crore in the same period last fiscal

India, Mauritius ink landmark economic cooperation agreement

India on Monday signed a landmark Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) with Mauritius

Paradip Port achieves 100 MT-mark in cargo handling for 4th year in a row

Paradip Port is one of the 12 major ports in the country

Traders' bodies divided on call for Bharat bandh over GST provisions

A national-level organisation of small businessmen on Friday said it is opposed to the move

Cabinet okays trade deal with Mauritius, the first with an African nation

Agreement is limited in scope, covers 310 export items from India and 615 imported products from Mauritius