与澳洲、非洲的协议可以推动纺织品出口

 

Pacts with Aus, Africa can boost textile exports

With India's free trade agreements (FTAs) with the European Union and the US still some distance away, the Textiles Ministry is eyeing bilateral agreements with Australia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Africa to boost garment exports.
The ministry is chasing a target of doubling textile exports in 10 years and is working on a new textiles policy to promote value-addition.
Textile exports are unlikely to reach their 2015-16 target of $47.5 billion (Rs 3.17 lakh crore) because the figure was $32 billion (Rs 2.14 lakh crore) till December. Last year, India's textile exports were $42 billion (Rs 2.81 lakh crore), which was in large part cotton and yarn.
“We might be a little short of target, but by and large we will achieve it,” Textiles Secretary Rashmi Verma said on the sidelines of the Indian International Handwoven Fair in Chennai.
She also said that since India did not have FTAs with the US and the EU, the sector was at a big disadvantage compared to Bangladesh and Vietnam which export textiles to the West at zero duty while Indian exporters face duties of 10-14 per cent.

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与澳洲、非洲的协议可以推动纺织品出口

因为印度与欧盟和美国的自由贸易协定(FTAs)仍有些距离,纺织部正关注与澳大利亚、独联体国家以及非洲国家的双边协议来促进服装出口。

该部长正追求在10年内纺织品出口翻一倍的目标，正制定新的纺织政策来增加附加值。

纺织品出口可能将达到他们2015-2016年475亿的目标（约31.7万卢比），因为直到12月这个数字为320亿美元（约21.4万卢比）。去年，印度纺织品出口为420亿美元（28.4万卢比），主要是纱线和棉花。

“我们距离目标可能还有一些距离，但是大体上我们已经实现了目标”纺织秘书Rashmi Verma在金奈举行的印度国际手工织造展会的非正式会议期间说。

她同时说，,由于印度没有与美国和欧盟的自由贸易协定,与孟加拉以及越南相比该行业有大的缺点,因为这两个国家零关税出口纺织品，而印度则面临10%-14%的关税。