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SME Times News Bureau | 18 Apr, 2013
The Indian government Thursday announced a host of incentives, including
interest rate subsidy and liberalisation of norms for special economic
zones, to boost exports.
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand
Sharma announced the measures as part of the annual supplement (for
2013-14) to the Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14.
The government has
decided to extend the period and scope of interest rate subsidy
provided under the zero duty Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG)
scheme.
"We have decided not only to extend the zero duty EPCG
scheme beyond March 2013, but also merge it with 3 percent EPCG scheme.
Now the zero duty EPCG benefits will be available to all sectors,"
Sharma said.
"We have also undertaken a major simplification of the EPCG scheme," he added.
The
Foreign Trade Policy has two variants under the EPCG scheme -- zero
duty for a few sectors and 3 percent duty for all sectors.
Now
the government has decided to harmonise zero duty EPCG and 3 percent
EPCG scheme into one scheme which will be a zero duty EPCG scheme
covering all sectors.
India's exports dropped by 1.76 percent at
$300.60 billion in the financial year ended March 31, 2013. In the
previous financial year the exports had increased by more than 20
percent.
The country's trade deficit widened to $190.91 billion in 2012-13 as compared to $183.4 billion recorded in the last fiscal.
Sharma
said interest subsidy and other incentives provided by the government
would help revive exports growth and curb trade deficit.
"We
are conscious of the need to enhance exports so that we can address the
real challenge of bringing down the trade account deficit, which
directly impacts the current account deficit," the minister said.
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