Trade
India’s April-September trade deficit seen lower at $67.99 billion
16 Oct 2015
Trade data showed a 25.42-per cent fall in imports from a year earlier to $32.32 billion during September 2015 and a 24.33 per cent fall in exports at $21.84 billion during the month
Clinton’s turnaround on Trans-Pacific trade stuns observers
09 Oct 2015
After having firmly backed Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord, presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton has done an about turn, saying she no longer supports the deal
UK cyber-security mission heading for India
06 Oct 2015
Merkel pushes FTA as EU continues to block drug imports from India
06 Oct 2015
With the EU continuing to block exports of about 700 generic drugs from India, any resumption of FTA talks would only be a wasteful exercise
Exports from top five sectors down 25% in August
03 Oct 2015
India, US vow to increase trade five-fold to $500 bn
23 Sep 2015
India and the United States are looking at a five-fold jump in their annual bilateral trade from the current $100 billion to $500 billion as the two countries work towards further deepening their security and economic cooperation
Indian IT firms in US paid $22 bn in taxes in 5 years; boosted jobs: report
22 Sep 2015
The report also asserted that while overall unemployment in the US was 6.2 per cent, it was only 2.7 per cent in tech sector, belying the impression that foreign guest workers were adding to the US unemployment situation
India among worst abusers of antibiotics
18 Sep 2015
Slumping exports take India’s April-August trade deficit to $57.52 bn
16 Sep 2015
While oil imports, which used to account for the bulk of the country's import bill, declined by 38.79 per cent to $41.50 billion during April-August 2015-16, non-oil imports during the period rose 3.39 per cent to $127.11 billion
Vietnam’s one-man army fights China’s economic invasion: report
31 Aug 2015
More than 75 per cent of Vietnam’s annual $60-billion trade is made up imports from China
India's Nov-Oct palm oil imports to rise 16% to 9.3 million tonnes
28 Aug 2015
India’s edible oil imports are expected to rise 7.1 per cent to 15 million tonnes in the next marketing year, after a likely rise of nearly 21 per cent to 14 million tonnes in the current year
Nearly 1,000 tonnes of Afghanistan onion arriving in a week: reports
28 Aug 2015
Strife-torn Afghanistan has been supplying India with an average thousand kg of onions every week with truck-loads of the commodity crossing over to India from the Wagah border every day
WTO rules against India in solar panel dispute with US: report
27 Aug 2015
The WTO dispute settlement panel, in a confidential report to New Delhi and Washington, found India violated global trade rules by imposing local content requirements for solar cells and solar modules