june 2016 issue

New-Gen Newsmaker

We Plan To Soon Export From India

United Motors (UM) is an American motorcycle brand present in more than 30 countries. Sensing a gap in the Indian market, UM entered India in 2015 and started manufacturing mid-range cruiser motorcycles in a joint ...
Date Book

Date Book June 2016

Have a product to showcase? Want to learn what your rivals are up to? Here’s a list of trade fairs you shouldn’t miss in June and July 2016   India India Warehousing Show 2016 June 08-10 New Delhiwww.indiawarehousingshow.comIndia Warehousing ...
Spotlight

Indonesia: The Rising Star of SouthEast ASIA

Indonesia has been an economic success story over the past couple of decades. Early to embrace liberalisation and foreign capital, this archipelago of 13,466 islands was badly hurt during the East Asian Financial Crisis. However, ...
Face2Face

We Will Try To Grow Exports By 40% Y-O-Y

The company has been a pioneer in bringing Reverse Osmosis (RO) technology to India and is today a household name in the water purifier segment industry across the country. The Dollar Business caught up with ...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Not Everything Has Changed In 233 Years!

It’s surprising how some of the problems that haunted India's foreign trade community over two centuries back continue to still. Some day these problems will matter. Today is that day. Steven Philip Warner | June 2016 Issue | ...
Global Manager

We Will Make India Our Export Hub

Indo-French giant Alstom plans to make India a hub for its locomotive manufacturing business to capitalise on demand beyond the domestic market; Australia, Sri Lanka, EU and Middle East are up next on its radar ...
TDB Forum

TDB Forum Ask A Question June 2016

In the world of export-import, each shipment counts. And you cannot afford to make any “uninformed investment”. So, if you have any doubt or a question, ask us. Our team of experts at The Dollar ...
Global Trade

Global Trade June 2016

News, events and analyses related to global trade and snippets of changing trade matrix during the month of May 2016.   Bangladesh-Nepal Bilateral Trade agreement Friends with (trade) benefits! Representatives from Commerce Ministries of Bangladesh and Nepal met on May 11 ...
Inbox

Inbox June 2016

We value your feedback, whether criticism or appreciation. And Here are a few that hit our mailboxes in May 2016 A wide coverage of subjects, in finer details, is the quality of The Dollar Business magazine. ...
India Trade

India Trade June 2016

News, leads and analysis related to India’s trade and all that’s happened on the policy front during the month of June 2016 India-Iran-afghanistan Infrastructure diplomacy India’s happy. China’s upset. US’ smiling. India has finally signed the much anticipated Chabahar project ...
Monologue

Monologue - People Speak - June 2016

While the direct economic costs of corruption are well known, the indirect costs may be even more substantial and debilitating, leading to low growth and greater income inequality. Christine Lagarde IMF Managing Director On the need for curbing corruption Source: IMF   As ...
Bestseller

DAP: Importing Under A Misa(DAP)ted Policy

India is the largest importer of diammonium phosphate (DAP) in the world. Simple reason: subsidies on urea mean DAP is still a dull boy in the manufacturing circles. In fact, India’s indigenous manufactures of this ...
Overseas Talk

India Is Not Enacting The AIFTA Faithfully

Despite historical closeness, trade negotiations between Indonesia and India in recent years haven’t progressed at a desirable speed. Taufik Rigo, First Secretary – Economic Affairs at the Embassy of Indonesia in New Delhi, speaks on ...
Policy Focus

Incremental Export Incentivisation Scheme: Too Little, Too Late?

The government recently relaxed the norms for incentivising exporters under the the erstwhile Incremental Export Incentivisation Scheme (IEIS). But isn’t it too little and too late to motivate exporters to export more? And isn’t the ...
Policy Monitor

Project exports require due recognition in FTP

Project exports is a segment that has potential to grow big, and become a crucial sector contributing to India’s exports. However, if industry insiders are to be believed, the industry still awaits due recognition in ...
Special Feature

Mobile Handset Industry: Invasion Of The Talking Machines!

Over the last one year, several mobile handset manufacturers from across the globe have announced the setting up of production facilities or increase in output volumes in India. Even Indian importers now want to progressively ...
Midas Touch

Bedspreads: Selling comfort for a fortune?

India’s exports of bedspreads, in value terms, has seen a phenomenal rise in the last decade. And it’s one of those few export products where China plays catch-up to India. With India expected to further ...
The Secret Ingredient

Senna Leaves: Small herb; Big, reliable idea

There is more to senna than meets the eye! This otherwise thought to be an ordinary desert plant has many applications, which is why it is one of the most sought herbs globally. While India ...
Dockyard

ICD Whitefield - Evolution At Whitefield

Whitefield, in east Bengaluru, has grown in two aspects. First, it is today known as the 'Silicon Valley of India', an area chock-a-block with some of the most popular software firms in the world. Second, ...
Cover Story

Free Trade Agreements: Is India on the right track?

India has always been running about with bells on, when it comes to free trade agreements (FTAs), ever since the literal collapse of the WTO Doha Round. However, of the FTAs that it has signed ...
Contents

Contents June 2016

COVER STORY : Free Trade Agreements: Is India on The Right Track? Of the many free trade agreements (FTAs) that India has signed till date, most have won more ‘friendship’ and less ‘precious forex’. Several trade ...
Borderline

What Trump Being Mr. Prez Means...

Manish K. Pandey | June 2016 Issue | The Dollar Business When American business magnate Donald Trump announced his candidature for the post of US President on June 16, 2015, most of us could imagine only a ...