Government to hire 1,000 professionals to help exporters | India News
New Delhi: The government plans to hire 1,000 young professionals to engage with businesses and exporters across the country to make greater use of benefits under FTAs and help India diversify its product basket and export markets.While recently implemented agreements such as those with Australia and the United Arab Emirates have seen high usage of their preferences, relatively low usage has been recorded with ASEAN, Japan and South Korea, which the government has argued is partly due to poorly drafted agreements.As businesses in India focus more on the growing domestic market, the government wants an added push to move products out of the country using lower tariffs under FTAs to boost manufacturing.Professionals are proposed to fan out across India, liaising with chambers of commerce and exporters to help tap foreign markets and identify potential exporters.
