China's exporters benefited from the relatively early reopening of its economy and demand for masks and other Chinese-made medical supplies

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Engineering exporters' body EEPC said the wholesale price of Hot Rolled Coil (HRC) has gone up to Rs 58,000 a tonne -- an unbearable increase of 55 per cent between January 2020 and January 2021

Chinese exports saw a robust performance in the second half of last year, helped by strong demand for Chinese goods and coronavirus-related disruptions to production in other countries

With India about to roll out its vaccination programme, the accruals of the economic benefits would be significant, especially to sectors hit hard during the pandemic, said ASSOCHAM Secretary General Deepak Sood

We will announce a collaboration with Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) very soon. We are commencing coastal shipping operations, SCI chairman and managing director H K Joshi said

Corporate leaders expect economic recovery to take over a year as the pandemic continues to affect businesses, finds the latest Business Today's Business Confidence Index survey

The purchases highlight tightening supplies in Asia, which could lift rice prices in 2021 and even force traditional buyers of rice from Thailand and Vietnam to switch to India - the world's biggest exporter of the grain

Exporters' community is hopeful that outbound shipments would start recording healthy growth rates from April 2021, helped by growth in demand in developed as well as developing countries

China has ramped up disinfection and virus testing on frozen food after it found coronavirus on imported products and packaging

CBIC on December 24 notified certain changes to the GST rules, asking businesses with a monthly turnover of over Rs 50 lakh to mandatorily pay at least 1 per cent of their GST liability in cash

Shipping freight rates have surged since July and companies are now finding it 'almost impossible to sustain normal trade operations', said Rajesh Menon, director general at the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)

Alluri Indra Kumar ensured that prawn farmers were not impacted during the lockdown

As per the finance ministry, more than 170 invitees representing 9 stakeholder groups participated in 15 Pre-Budget consultation meetings scheduled between December 14 to 23

The SMB Impact Report 2020 said 1.5 lakh new sellers joined Amazon.in in 2020 with over 50,000 registering in Hindi and Tamil

Other recommendations include extending tax deduction on product development, providing deemed export status to Indian industry under the global bidding of procurement, ECGC coverage to the banks for export finance, and higher budget allocation to the Department of Commerce

In the session that was presided by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Jindal said the Indian industry can become more competitive and it can produce for the world market

McMillion said that by significantly accelerating the company's annual India exports in the coming years, they are supporting the Make in India initiative