As global trade equations shift, even a single variable—like tariffs—can significantly impact results. For India’s food and beverage (F&B) sector, the recent 25% tariff imposition by the United States isn’t just a policy change—it’s a coefficient with the power to reshape margins, disrupt growth trajectories, and reconfigure long-standing trade models....
Prof Harsh V. Verma, Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, believes that for Indian exporters to expand their global footprint, it is very important for them to compete with China while looking inward and becoming centers of excellence. Image credit: Shutterstock An analysis of top markets for Indian exporters would...
Dr Arpita Mukherjee, Professor at ICRIER, proposes a step-by-step framework for India’s Foreign Trade Policy, where India should look at success stories from other countries, make subsidies WTO-compliant, and focus on market development, competitiveness and efficiency, as opposed to incentives. IBT: What have you observed as the most transformational changes...
India can use the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to correct aberrations in its employment structure and strengthen manufacturing competitiveness in key sectors including electronics, automobiles, auto parts, processed food and beverage, paper, plastics, furniture etc. India is an outlier in terms of structural shift in labour employment as it...
Dr. Sunitha Raju, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, argues that viewing Aatma Nirbhar Bharat from the perspective of import substitution is wrong and potentially dangerous. Instead, India should have a holistic approach towards attracting FDI in its areas of strength, develop skill sets to capture new emerging opportunities and also...
The onset of COVID-19 has exposed the perils of an overdependence on Chinese manufacturing to nations and corporations across borders. This is being viewed as an invaluable opportunity for other nations to emerge as alternate manufacturing destinations. India Business & Trade takes a look at the current dynamics of global...
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