Tag: exports

Nepal to establish SEZs to facilitate trade and investment

Buoyed by success of some of India’s Special Economic Zones, Nepal has drawn up ambitious plans for SEZs and Industrial estates along Indo-Nepal border offering Indian industries opportunity to set up units there. “Investing within SEZ has multiple benefits that include flexible and investment fr…

MIP on steel to jolt engineering exports | EEPC India

Engineering Exports Promotion Council (EEPC) demands a mechanism to compensate increased raw material cost to engineering products exporters as a result of Minimum Import Price (MIP) levied to prevent cheap steel imports.  “The introduction of the Minimum Import Price on steel products will raise…

Scheme to boost ‘Make in India’ in textile sector

Government approves ‘Amended Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme’ for Textiles industry. It will generate one lakh crore rupees investment & create over 30 lakh jobs  Government has approved a scheme to boost Make in India in textiles that would help in generating  Rs one lakh crore investment…

S C Ralhan | FIEO President| MSMEs need doles to tackle falling exports

Exports have registered a decline for November 2015 for the 12th consecutive time and the fall this time has been the steepest at 24. 43% and spread across sectors save 7 as against 9 sectors in October 2015 leading to concern on whether this is a temporary cyclical phase or due to deeper structu…

Falling exports, a big concern for MSMEs | FISME

While some experts are saying that the near 25% drop in exports should be viewed with caution not panic, the 28.5% drop in export of Engineering Goods is really alarming, said Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME), an apex body for MSME associations. India’s …