GSP withdrawal by US to have marginal impact on India’s exports: FIEO
New Delhi [India], Mar 5 (ANI): The US Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) gave India tariff advantage of only 190 million dollars while India's exports to the United States totalled 50.57 billion dollars in 2017, the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) said on Tuesday.
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Mar 05, 2019 17:42 IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 5 (ANI): The US Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) gave India tariff advantage of only 190 million dollars while India's exports to the United States totalled 50.57 billion dollars in 2017, the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) said on Tuesday.
"The tariff advantage was less than 0.4 per cent of our exports. Naturally, its withdrawal will have a marginal impact," said FIEO President Ganesh Kumar Gupta.
The GSP was given on a non-reciprocal basis, he said. Yet, the United States linked it with market access and tariff reduction, which is against the basic tenets of GSP.
Gupta said that since India predominantly exports intermediate and semi-manufactured goods to the United States, the GSP helped in cost-effectiveness and price competitiveness of US downstream industry. Hence its withdrawal will impact the competitiveness of many manufacturing sectors and hit US consumers.
The import price of most chemicals products, which constituted a large chunk of India’s exports, is expected to increase by about 5 per cent. "The withdrawal of GSP benefit will also hit import diversification strategy of the United States when it is keen to replace China as its main supplier."
Gupta said India was getting tariff preference on 5,111 tariff lines out of 18,770 tariff lines in the United States. However, the tariff advantage was 4 per cent or more on only 2,165 tariff lines. (ANI)
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