Cover Story – FTP – What the industry wants?

With the new Foreign Trade Policy scheduled to be announced this month, we give you a 360 degree round-up of what the industry feels should be done to achieve those elusive ache din 

Focus and promotion - Not only do we need to focus in right earnest, we need to be cautious about what we promote

Exemptions and remissions - Why we shouldn’t tinker with drawbacks every other day

EPCG - What do you do when a scheme is very successful but is a monitoring nightmare?

Export promotion zones - Time for another wave; but then how long can hand-holding continue?

Services - Suffering from the taxmen’s inability to understand even services can be exported

Deemed exports - If we deem them as exports, shouldn’t we also treat them as exports? read more  

 

Global Trade – This month

From China becoming the biggest trader to Yemen joining the WTO read more  

 

India Trade – This month

Govt flip-flop on MEP, covert trade war with China and much more read more  

 

Spotlight - Russia

Has Putin bitten more than he can chew or is the Russian economy reviving read more  

 

Infographic - Live Animals

Billions of dollars exchange hands every year, but it’s still ignored read more

 

Globetrotter – Bajaj Auto

Time to learn from the past and transform again read more   

 

Big Idea - Indonesia

Shouldn’t we learn from our ancient mariners? read more  

 

Secret Ingredient - T-Shirts

How a small town in South India is dressing up the world read more  

 

 

 

Import’onomics – Lentils

When satisfying the taste buds is profitable as well read more 

 

 

 

 

 

Prime Focus – Freight transportation

Clogged arteries & the road ahead read more  

 

 

 

 

Overseas Talk

Nicola Watkinson, Minister Commercial (India), Australian Trade Commission    What really matters is the expansion of trade relations and not necessarily who has a surplus and who runs a deficit read more  

 

 

 

 

 

Rendezvous

Sanjay Budhia, chairman, CII National Committee on Export & Import, On what the near term holds for India’s exports read more  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dockyard – Kamarajar Port Ltd    

India’s only corporate major port is also a ‘landlord’ read more   

 

 

 

 

New-Gen Newsmaker

Rajen Shah, Managing Director, Arihant Industrial Corporation Ltd read more

 

 

 

 

 

Exclusive Interviews   Anish Goel, Managing Director, Victorinox India   

Why you can’t just make up the all powerful ‘Swiss Made’ read more  

 

 

 

 

 

 

M. Ramaswami, Chairman, Texprocil

On Chinese policy changes and everything else cotton read more