India, Tanzania can team up on IT, food security: Piyush Goyal

“Tanzania is our biggest export destination in Africa. Over the next few years, we are looking to make this another very fast-growing growth story,” Goyal said in the India-Tanzania Investment Forum organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

These certificates provide certain privileges, including simplified procedures under foreign trade policy (FTP) and priority custom clearances on a self-declaration basis, exemption from compulsory negotiation of documents through banks, and exemption from filing bank guarantees for FTP schemes. Upon achieving prescribed export performance, status recognition as one, two, three, four and five-star export houses is […]

The Indian government is considering imposing a 25% duty on the export of molasses due to an expected decline in sugar production. The move aims to increase the availability of molasses for domestic distilleries, helping them meet the government’s ethanol blending target. India experienced a dry August, causing damage to the sugarcane crop in key […]

Commerce and industry Piyush Goyal launched a new initiative to issue IT system based automatic ‘Status Holder’ certificates to exporters under the Foreign Trade Policy 2023 under which the government will recognise about 20,000 exporters as Status Holders, up from 12,518 exporters recognised earlier.

Total gems and jewellery trade between India and Israel stood at USD 2.04 billion in 2022-23 as against USD 2.8 billion in 2021-22.

India and Peru will begin the next round of negotiations for a trade agreement on October 10. The agreement aims to promote bilateral trade and investments by reducing or eliminating customs duties on goods traded between the two countries. Discussions will cover various issues including rules of origin, trade in goods, customs procedures, and trade […]

The US was followed by the UAE (USD 836.36 million), the Netherlands (USD 379.3 million), the UK (USD 336.27 million), Italy (USD 245.7 million), and the Czech Republic (USD 230.25 million).

India Exim Bank is focusing on expanding exports to new markets and collaborating with existing ones to foster growth amid economic slowdown and geopolitical challenges. The bank is not concerned about its exposure in Canada and believes that the situation has adequate attention from the government.

While this may reduce exporters’ profits but it will not impact trade volumes unless the war escalates, it said. India’s outbound shipments to Israel in FY23 were $8.4 billion with diesel, cut and unpolished diamonds, and electronics and telecom components like integrated circuits, parts of photovoltaic cells being the top exports whereas total imports of […]

​Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), or treaties between two or more nations designed to reduce barriers to trade and investment, are not new to India. New Delhi has signed 13 such pacts in the last five decades, with the primary ones being with countries and blocs in the east — for instance Japan, South Korea, Australia, […]