Importonomics PVC Resins - More than just a plastic smile for Indian importers
This is one crucial component omnipresent and conspicuous everywhere, be it households or extensive infrastructure. However, unlike most discoveries and inventions, it was not the culmination of research and experiments, but a result of a ...
Steven Philip Warner | Editor-in-Chief In defence of FTAs?
The revenue forgone by our Customs department was Rs.2,60,714 crore in FY2014. Of this, 23% was on account of export promotion schemes; the rest due to FTAs!
Steven Philip Warner | The Dollar Business
It’s easy to ...
Cover Story FSSAI Low standards of standardising
With power comes responsibility. But it’s easy to get drunk on power, and forget about responsibility. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in its eight years of existence, seems to be hell-bent ...
Contents Contents March 2015
Cover Story – FSSAI - Low standards of standardising
With power comes responsibility. But it’s easy to get drunk on power, and forget about responsibility. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in its ...
Inbox Inbox March 2015
We value your feedback, whether criticism or appreciation. And here are a few that hit our mailboxes in February 2015
I am a frequent reader of The Dollar Business. I think the contents that are in ...
Monologue Monologue - People Speak - March 2015
Highlighting the opinions and thoughts of policymakers and think-tanks on global trade and foreign policy
Actually, there is no floor to the price of oil. The oil floor is the cash cost of shale, which is ...
Global Trade Global Trade March 2015
News, events and analyses related to global trade and snippets of changing trade matrix during the month of February 2015
East Africa
Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia
Everything to make African safari that much spicier
With ITC (International Trade Centre) ...
India Trade India Trade March 2015
News, leads and analysis related to India’s trade and all that’s happened on the policy front during the month of February 2015
India-Lebanon
Fruitful Exchange
Wining and dining the Lebanese way
India’s customs duty on wine is one of ...
Overseas Talk We would welcome more trade with India
Joakim Reiter, Deputy Director General and Head of the International Trade Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, was in India recently to discuss the link between the ‘Make in India’ initiative and India’s future ...
Global Corporation Bharat Forge - If only India had more of this
What would a company and its management do when it is the world’s largest manufacturer of its kind, its shares are trading at all-time highs and profits have never been higher? Sit back and relax? ...
Global Manager Indias offering of aero components is highly diverse
Ashwini Chanan, Director – Government relations, Honeywell India |
With exports of aircraft components having crossed the $5 billion mark in 2014, not many question India’s rising stake in the blink-and-you-miss business of innovation in aerospace ...
Manish K Pandey | Editor Can redback rival the greenback?
No doubt, RMB is more of an international currency today than it was a few years back. But, it’s still not in the same league as USD
Manish K. Pandey | The Dollar Business
Just four months ...
Spotlight Benin Heard of benin? its a country!
Many don’t know much about Benin. The same is actually true about West Africa. [Benin is in West Africa – what a coincidence!] Once the epicentre of trans-Atlantic slave trade and infamous for its unstable ...
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Infographics Tobacco - Add some sin to your portfolio
It has a long history. Some say it was discovered in Europe, while others believe the magic leaf has its origins in the Americas. No matter what the truth is, the fact remains tobacco was ...
Midas Touch Soybean Meals In urgent need of a tailwind
It’s a residue, produced during the crushing of soybean to produce soybean oil. Despite not having a very high profile – it’s mostly used as animal feed – soybean meal exports, until a year back, ...
Globetrotter Punj Lloyd - Theres no place like home
The lure of foreign shores can be irresistible. They tempt even the best. But for the underprepared, the prosperity they promise, can turn out be a mirage. One Indian company which has lived this bitter ...
Exclusive Column An ambitious plan to make India a manufacturing superpower
Make in India - Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first and most ambitious campaign to jumpstart the Indian economy is now five months old. Although it had raised a lot of interest in the cyber world, ...
Dockyard Haldia Dock Complex - More of politics less of a port
What comes more to mind when you think of Bengal? Fish curry, mishti doi, football, Eden Gardens and Victoria Memorial or communism, protest rallies, dharnas, agitations and trade unions? Odds of the last five are ...
Policy Monitor We feel the existing export incentives are not adequate
Lekhraj Maheshwari, Chairman, Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) |
Handicrafts exports from India have surged in recent times. But this isn’t a reason enough to rejoice for Lekhraj Maheshwari, Chairman, Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH). ...
Prime Focus Oil Crash - Get up early, work late, and strike short oil
What determines the price of anything? Is it the demand and supply for it, or is it the cost of production? And can these factors alone lead to a 50% drop in the price of ...
New-Gen Newsmaker For Mitashi, everyone is a potential customer
He left his chartered accountancy course midway to start his own business. And he has no regrets about his decision. For the seed he sowed twenty four years back is now a tree bearing fruits ...
Date Book Date Book March 2015
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 March and April 2015
India
Aahar 2015
March 10-14, New Delhi
www.aaharinternationalfair.com
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