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DGFT assures transparency, good governance to lift exports

The Dollar Business Bureau Reassuring the micro small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector, Additional DGFT said on Monday that it is working to enhance the governance and transparency of services in a time-bound manner to boost exports. “DGFT team is working for improving the governance as well as transparency of services in a time-bound period to make certain that the exports will grow in the coming months,” said Sonia Sethi, Additional Director General of Foreign Trade, while speaking at an open house meeting, organised by the All India Association of Industries and World Trade Centre Mumbai. She said, “My team is pulling up its socks on all issues faced by industry and the potential entrants in the MSME segment. The MSME clusters are our priority in export promotion.”According ...

Youve got to take the good with the ugly!

TPP is all about United States seeking more influence in the Asia-Pacific region and, of course, its desperation toward re-writing therules of global trade sans China Manish K. Pandey |The Dollar Business While US is Indias biggest trade market constituting about 13% of its total merchandise exports, the other 11 members of the TPP collectively account for about 11% of Indias total merchandise exports   The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was finally agreed upon by the member countries last month after more than five years of discussions. Arriving at the accord was no mean feat given the diverse and competing interests of a dozen of nations: United States (US), Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. The mega-trade bloc ...