Ideas for increasing exports- International Ecommerce

{This is the second post in this series. First one here} In less than a decade eCommerce has become the most exciting and the fastest growing channel for commerce in India. Indian eCommerce has one of the fastest year-on-year growths at about 51% and is poised to reach a merchandize value of around $ 120 …

Ideas for increasing Exports- Permanent Exhibition Centres

With the labour abundance, raw material, skilled and technology available, India has a latent comparative advantage in many products but most of it is still untapped. In addition, as Chinese manufacturing becomes costlier, there are many buyers who want to move to India. However, none of this is leading to any substantial increase in exports. …

Export under GST in other Countries

{This is the third post on GST in continuation to the posts here and here.} A 2009 research paper by NCAER uses the general equilibrium model to forecast the impact of GST on India’s International trade. While the details in the paper are technical, what are worth noting are its predicted results on implementation of …

Impact of GST on the Foreign Trade Policy of India ?

To lay out a background to this post, the basic structure and possible impact of GST on import taxation is covered in the previous post here. As of now, it is not clear how the allied acts and rules (Foreign Trade Policy being one of them) would be modified after GST is introduced.  The GST …

Understanding Exports from Karnataka – II

In continuation to the first post on the exports from Karnataka here is an analysis of the exports from Karnataka over 3 financial years from April 2013 to March 2016. Exports from Karnataka between April 2013 to March 2016 1.     Understanding Revealed Comparative Advantage RCA is an index used in international economics for calculating the …

Understanding Exports from Karnataka -I

Recently having got access to India's export data based on the states of origin, it was finally possible to delve into the composition of each state's exports. To begin with I decided to analyse the exports from the state of Karnataka. This exercise is going to be the first step to a multi-step agenda. Step …