Foreign Trade Policy
Foreign Trade Policy (2015-20) The new Foreign Trade Policy 2015-20 was unveiled by Commerce & Industry Minister, Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman on 1st April 2015. It provides a framework for increasing exports of goods and services as well as generation of employment and increasing value addition in the country, in keeping with the “Make in India” vision of Prime Minister. The focus of the new policy is to support both the manufacturing and services sectors, with a special emphasis on improving the ‘ease of doing business’. The new foreign trade policy aims at increasing exports of goods and services to 900 billion by 2019-20, from $466 billion in 2013-14. It seeks to raise India’s share in world exports from existing 2% to 3.5% in near future . Highlights The foreign trade policy, 2015-20 may be categorized into following three parts for better understanding: A. Simplification and Merger of Reward Schemes The existing reward schemes have been merged into tw...