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Exports may miss global trade revival

Demand in the US and China will drive trade volumes, says WTO

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Subhayan Chakraborty New Delhi
Global trade growth is expected to rebound in 2017 but India may not be able to take advantage of this in the US and China — major markets where consumer and industrial demand is set to drive trade forward.

On Thursday, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) raised the estimate for growth in world merchandise trade volume for 2017 to 3.6 per cent from 2.4 per cent it had projected earlier. 

The revision is because of positive economic trends in North America and China that are leading to a resurgence of industrial and consumer demand.

However, exporters and trade experts said it would be

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