
Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government's new Foreign Trade Policy (2015-2020) on Wednesday at the Vigyan Bhawan in the national capital.
Here are the key takeaways from Sitharaman's speech:
>> Focus in Foreign Trade Policy is to support services and exports
>> Have taken a number of very important initiatives
>> Will focus on export of high value addition products
>> Focussed on improving ease of doing business in new policy
>> Challenge is to address infra bottlenecks, complex procedures, manufacturing
>> Need to ensure local products and services are globally competitive
>> Market diversification is a key focus of Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020