Infographics Livestock: As live as any business can get
Although many think trading animals like commodities is inhuman and should not be allowed in the first place, there’s no denying the fact that global trade of live animals – dominated by bovines – has ...
Contents Contents August 2014
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 ...
Date Book Date Book August 2014
Have a product to showcase? Or want to learn what your rivals are up to? Here’s a list of trade fairs you shouldn’t miss in August and September 2014
India Auto Expo 2014
Aug 8 – 10, ...
Monologue Monologue - People Speak - August 2014
Highlighting the opinions and thoughts of policymakers and think-tanks on global trade and foreign policy
The TFA (Trade Facilitation Agreement), in and of itself, is a huge accomplishment for the WTO, re-establishing that its members can ...
Inbox Inbox August 2014
We value your feedback, whether criticism or appreciation. And here are a few that hit our mailboxes in July 2014
Your magazine seems like a great idea to fill a crucial gap for Indian business. Exports ...
Steven Philip Warner | Editor-in-Chief The last FTP was a pass. It scored 40%!
When FTP 2009-14 was released, the-then policymakers had set a target of crossing the $500 billion mark in India’s exports by FY2014. In FY2014, our exports just about managed to vault past the $313 billion ...
Cover Story India's Foreign Trade Policy: For the ultimate game changer
It’s unfortunate that an accounting exercise like the Union Budget gets massively disproportionate coverage while the Foreign Trade Policy – with a five times longer lifecycle – gets mostly ignored.
The Dollar Business Bureau | @TheDollarBiz ...
Cover Story Deemed Exports: Dont just deem, treat them as real exports
A culture that credits a little squirrel carrying grains of sand to have contributed in Lord Rama building the bridge to Lanka, it’s only logical that even those who supply goods to end-exporters are also ...
Cover Story Services: Export Services, Not Taxes
If India is considered a serious player in the export of something, without a doubt it is Services. But although we are ranked 6th in the world in Services exports, our exports in CY2013 were ...
Cover Story Exemptions & Remissions: Its the business end, statistically
When it comes to Indian exporters, a bulk of the exemptions, incentives and remissions they avail are covered under the ambit of duty exemption and remission schemes. Although they have been immensely successful in helping ...
India Trade India Trade August 2014
News, leads and analysis related to India's trade and all that's happened on the policy front during the month of July 2014
Chinese Milk
Extension of Ban
Need Operation Flood 2.0
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has ...
Global Trade Global Trade August 2014
News, events and analyses related to global trade and snippets of changing trade matrix during the month of July 2014
Yemen republic
Joining WTO
Integrating with the new world order
Yemen has become the 160th country and the 35th ...
Spotlight Russia: Putin's fiefdom
The journey from being one of the superbulls of a bipolar world to being relegated to an emerging market can be very painful. Perhaps humiliating too. But President Vladimir Putin seems to have vowed to ...
Manish K Pandey | Editor BRICS has arrived. Finally!
World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have almost always been led by either an American or a European
Manish K. Pandey | Augest 2014 Issue | The Dollar Business
The recently concluded 6th BRICS Summit in Fortaleza, ...
Rendezvous "Drawback rates should be re-evaluated and raised"
Having a merchandise trade deficit of over $100 billion in each of the last four years can lead to many unfathomable consequences. With the new government at the Centre making all the right noises to ...
Prime Focus Logistics development logical driver to Indias growth
Whoever said roads are the blood vessels of an economy, probably forgot to mention rails, sea ports and airports! And if all of them together are indeed the blood vessels, then India is definitely headed ...
Policy Monitor "Policymakers should move from lobby-based to logic-based incentives"
Anxiety is running high in the Indian textile industry, thanks to China’s new cotton policy. Presently, the price difference between Indian and Chinese cotton is quite high, with the Indian variety selling at a big ...
New-Gen Newsmaker "We dont see Chinese companies as competition"
India has several entrepreneurs who have dared to enter uncharted territories and successfully chart their course to stardom. One such individual, Rajen Shah, Managing Director of Arihant Industrial Corporation Limited, in a freewheeling interaction with ...
Dockyard Indias landlord port A professional delight
After covering India’s biggest major port Kandla in our last edition, we decided to head to the south-east for an on-ground health-check of India’s first and only corporate major port – Kamarajar Port. Yes, Ennore ...
Globetrotter Bajaj scooters - Still Indias Car on two wheels?
Rarely has a company chronicled the history of a country the way Bajaj Auto has done in the case of India. Right from the days of founder Jamnalal Bajaj – such an ardent follower of ...
Overseas Talk "Industries grow better when they are less protected"
Indo-Australian trade ties haven’t really benefitted from the cricketing connect, with Australia not featuring even in the list of top 20 trading partners of India. To understand what is affecting the bilateral trade and what ...
Exclusive Interview "Lentils should be Included in Indias PDS and FSA"
TDB: India was once the leader in lentils production but now Canada has taken over. How do you see it?
Pradeep Ghorpade (PG): The primary reason for this is the absence of pulses in our Public ...
Importonomics Lentils A bowlful of delight!
It’s an integral part of daily meals, particularly in north India. While we are the second largest producer of red lentils in the world, we are also its biggest importer. And with government policies still ...
The Secret Ingredient T-Shirts: Dressing up the world
90% of cotton tees exported from India are made in a lesser-known South Indian town called Tirupur, a.k.a. the “Dollar City”. 62% of Americans claim to own at least ten tees, and odds are high ...
Global Manager "We ensure our products dont become touch-me-nots"
Anish Goel, Managing Director of Victorinox India. Chances are that you own one or aspire to own one. Having got its name from the Yankees in Europe after World War II, the Swiss Army Knife ...
Big Idea Time to learn from ancient mariners
Recent political turmoil notwithstanding, Indonesia has been an economic success story over the past couple of decades. Early to embrace liberalisation and foreign capital, the country was badly bruised during the East Asian Financial Crisis. ...
