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Upcoming Budget can fillip exports growth further: FIEO
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Saurabh Gupta | 17 Jan, 2017
Chief of apex exporters body, Federation of Indian Export Organisation (FIEO), S C
Ralhan has said that constant growth in country's exports for last few months is encouraging
and he feel that the upcoming Budget 2017 can provide a further fillip
to it.
FIEO chief, in his statement, said, "We think our
request for an Export Development Fund in the Union Budget is well
timed. The focus in such challenging times should be on marketing with
proactive support from the government."
He said, "GST has to
ensure a system which does not affect the liquidity of exporters both of
input tax for manufacturers and final product tax for merchant
exporters . The interest equalisation scheme has been very effective in
cutting the cost of credit and should be extended to merchant exporters
in this Budget."
"Looking at the continuous positive trend of
growth in exports, we are on our course to achieve exports of about USD
270-280 billion during the current fiscal," he added.
Commenting
on the December, 2016 Trade Data, Ralhan said that exports for the month
of December, 2016 continued with its positive trend and touched the
base of over USD 23 billion exhibiting a growth of 5.72 percent during
the month. The overall exports for the period April-December, 2016-17 is
also positive for the second time in a row showing a growth of 0.75
percent during the period.
FIEO Chief further added that the
growth across sectors in 18 out of 30 major product groups, have not
only been positive in December but sectors specially Iron ore have
continued to show an overwhelming growth of well over 800 percent.
Other
major sectors like Jute manufacturing, Oil Meals, Oil seeds, Coffee,
Marine Products, Cashew, Engineering goods, Organic & Inorganic
Chemicals, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals and Gems & Jewellery have
also shown impressive growth contributing in a major way to the growth
in exports during the month with few of them showing higher double digit
growth for the first time in recent months. Mr Ralhan reiterated that
Petroleum exports which has a major contribution in the exports basket
has continued to growth with a positive growth of well over 8 percent.
FIEO
President added that global sentiments have started showing positive
signs and US Fed rate hike and demonetisation have very limited impact
on exports. The labour intensive sectors like gems and jewellery,
handicraft, marine and engineering have shown impressive growth.
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