Economic survey pushes to raise global export share to 5%, exporters unsure

The share is currently 1.7% while that of China is 13.2%

Taking forward a long standing goal of the government, the latest economic survey has again harped on the need for India to achieve a respectable share of 5 per cent of global exports but exporters are not too sure how the country will get there.

Currently, the figure is 1.7 per cent in 2016, which the government has accepted is very low for an economy the size of India. Exporting powerhouse China supplies China’s commands 13.2 per cent of the global supplies, on the other hand.

To do so within the next 5 years, as the Survey wants, the country's