The Dollar Business - August 2017

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India's exporters got little from this year's Union Budget. The recently implemented Goods and Services Tax (GST) further left them confused. Visit https://www.thedollarbusiness.com/subscription to #subscribe online

FTP Mid - Term Review : Will Exporters Woes Continue?

India's exporters got little from this year's Union Budget. The recently implemented Goods and Services Tax (GST) further left them confused. They now can't wait to learn what 'happy surprises' the mid-term review of the Foreign Trade Policy has in store for them. And not to say, their expectations from the mid-term review have changed in the past weeks. [It's just getting bigger!] The Dollar Business reaches out to India's EXIM community to learn what it desires from the FTP revision and how GST has impacted its wishlist.

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We Must Diversify Bilateral Trade

Brazil and India have many things in common – from enormous economies to vibrant cultures. The two are also members of the BRICS trade bloc and are working towards improving bilateral ties. In an interaction with The Dollar Business, H. E. Tovar Da Silva Nunes, the Brazilian Ambassador to India, discusses at length the past and present state of relationship, and the roadmap for the future to fortify bilateral ties.

7 mins

Inland Waterways Will Help Decongest Rail & Road

In an exclusive interaction with The Dollar Business, Mansukh Lal Mandaviya, Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Chemicals and Fertilisers, discusses at length the initiatives taken up by his government to create an enabling environment for these sectors and how he plans to overcome the global challenges hampering their growth.

5 mins

Cotton On To This Exports Idea

India is the second-largest exporter of cotton in the world. Interestingly, it is also one of the largest importers of the product. An anomaly, you may think. But there are a multitude of reasons to explain this. The growth of the textile industry and the demand for extra long staple cotton has resulted in a massive increase in imports. In fact, implementation of GST is further expected to give its imports a boost. The Dollar Business investigates if now is a good time to start importing cotton.

6 mins

We Aim To Increase Our Market Share In EU

Apollo Tyres has been aggressively expanding its global footprint for quite some time now. The company recently made headlines when production began at its first greenfield facility outside India. The Dollar Business caught up with the man behind this internationalisation strategy, Neeraj Kanwar, Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Apollo Tyres Ltd., to understand the company’s international market gameplan.

5 mins

We Plan To Expand Our Footprint To 65 Countries

Sudhir Hasija, a first-generation entrepreneur and the Chairman of Karbonn Mobiles, always longed to create a brand with an expansive reach. And, when he saw a few home-grown companies cashing in on opportunities in the mobile phone market, he knew that the time was right to take the plunge. Hasija takes The Dollar Business through the company’s origins and future expansion plans.

5 mins

The New King Of Healthy Fruits

Pomegranate is slowly gaining popularity worldwide – thanks to the increasing awareness about its health benefits. Alongside, the Government of India is doing its best to promote the fruit internationally and has been encouraging farmers to produce more. Result: Exports from India have been growing steadily. The Dollar Business analyses the pros and cons of the business of exporting pomegranates.

5 mins

Exporters Find It Tough To Honour High Volume Commitments

Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), established in 1985, has been instrumental in identifying new markets and providing better support systems to exporters of agricultural and processed food products. In a tête-à-tête with The Dollar Business, Devendra Kumar Singh, Chairman of APEDA, throws light on the various initiatives that APEDA is taking up to give exports a boost.

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About The Dollar Business
The vision behind ‘The Dollar Business’ is to become the most desired destination of information on foreign trade in the country!
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The journey of The Dollar Business™ has wonderfully begun. It belongs to the house of Vimbri Media Pvt. Ltd., a media company headquartered in Hyderabad, India.
The Dollar Business™ is an India-based magazine for India-based exporters and importers – and the so-called, multinational giants – that believe in the magic of trade beyond borders. There are many business magazines in the country that claim to be ‘essential’ reads. They have many-a-claim to fame – usually without much reason or proof, like being number one in India across many dimensions. How uninteresting. The Dollar Business™ doesn’t claim to be number one. It’s the only one in India. And it doesn’t know many dimensions. Just one – global trade!
From an industry that records a turnover of close to 10 times of India’s GDP each year, there is much to be learnt. Actually, there much to earn too! The Dollar Business™ has a focused reach. We don’t cater to the everyday Toms who want to flip pages to catch a glimpse of Marilyn Monroe or read what a novice has heard through the grapevine about some business going bust. Our content isn’t priceless in that respect. Our readers desire serious information that either supports their case or gives them an understanding that can be priced. Our readers are either stakeholders in the business of export-import, or have a keen interest in what this industry has to offer. Like we say, we just know one dimension – global trade, and most definitely, all our readers have a serious interest in both our articles and the advertisers.
To cater to such a focused reader group, we don’t just do with everyday content creators and field reporters who know little about the vast subject of foreign trade. We have content specialists on board who have dealt with foreign trade as a platform for decades.
This expert editorial panel functions pan-India – from the financial capital of India (Mumbai) to the political capital (Delhi), from the Silicon Valley of India (Hyderabad) to the former capital of British India (Kolkata).
In fact, the next time you sit sipping Darjeeling tea, there is a chance that we actually would have a fat-glassed analyst roaming the sloped hills where tender apical tea shoots are being plucked.
His task – to make our reader something more than just a tea-sipper...perhaps to a tea exporter!