Exports

Oil price warrants close attention Source: DBS - India must keep eye on oil prices. The Indian authorities are likely to watch closely the direction of oil prices and Brexit for managing domestic economy against external developments. A favourable global...

Chinese to bargain for renewing suspended contracts Source: Directorate of Mines and Geology, Goa. Chinese mills are expected to bargain hard for pricing iron ore imports from India, which is re-entering the Chinese-dominated global market by renewing yet to be...

Thai enterprises keen on Indian projects Source: Commerce Ministry - Minister Apiradi Tantraporn wants to accelerate India-Thai FTA. Thailand has encouraged India to wrap up some parts of their long-awaited comprehensive free-trade agreement (FTA) after protracted negotiations on some topics...

Parrikar... India plans to export Tejas fighter aircraft Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has set a US$2 billion export target for Indian defence related products over the next two years. “I have set a target for myself. In the next two...

Special Report: India’s Trade Negotiations: The Imperative of Flexibility By Amitendu Palit, Senior Research Fellow and Research Lead (Trade and Economic Policy) at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS). India continues to be labeled ‘obstructive’ in its ongoing trade...

GIFT's Ajay Pandey Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. becomes the fourth bank to open its IFSC Banking Unit (IBU) at India’s first and only International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT). Kotak Mahindra Bank is one of...

A shopping mall in India where retail landscape is evolving rapidly, and is currently estimated at about US$600 billion with an average annual growth of 12 per cent, says HKTDC. Hong Kong-based manufacturers might consider relocating their China-based factories to...

Venkat says Vyome has become a clinical company in US. The US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has accepted Vyome Biosciences’ Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for the initiation of clinical studies for its lead program VB 1953, a...

India’s position on trade agreements is under scrutiny after a group of 12 countries, led by the United States, reached a tentative agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) earlier this week, says Singapore’s DBS Bank in its daily economic report...

Mumbai-based DCB Bank Limited has announced a collaboration with Western Union Business Solutions to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India engage in cross-border trade. Western Union Business Solutions’ global payments technology platform and foreign exchange services will be...