The commerce ministry is planning to revise the export growth target of 8.6 per cent set for the period 2002-07 in the medium-term export strategy.
Commerce ministry officials told Business Standard that the revision would have to be made due to the slowdown in the export growth witnessed during the current fiscal as also on account of some calculation mistakes in the draft strategy paper prepared by the ministry.
The strategy prepared by the ministry had projected a growth of 8.6 per cent during the five-year period against the average of 8.3 per cent in the last 10 years.
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If the growth projections were met, India would have achieved the target of having a 1 per cent share in global trade by 2007.
In the last eight years, exports to the American continents have grown by 14 per cent. Exports to the European Union have grown by 6 per cent in the period while exports to east Europe and Russia have registered a 10 per cent decrease.
India's exports to the Oceania and Asia have grown by 11 per cent while those to Africa have shown 17 per cent rise in the last eight years.
The commerce ministry is of the opinion that in the five-year period, each of these regions is expected to show a growth that is equal to that registered in the last eight years, except in case of east Europe and Russia which is projected to witness a turnaround.
In the last three years, India's export to this region has grown by a whopping 25 per cent. In the current financial year, India's exports have posted a mere 0.5 per cent increase due to the global slowdown.
The government had set a growth target of 12 per cent for the current financial year, which has been revised to 3 per cent.