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Modi govt establishes high-level advisory group to boost exports

The panel has been set up as a temporary measure and is set to meet for the next two months regularly, and then it will submit a report to the commerce ministry

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Subhayan Chakraborty New Delhi

Last Updated : Sep 28 2018 | 5:30 AM IST

A day after hiking import duties on 19 items, the government decided to set up a 12-member, high-level advisory group to look at ways of promoting export. Headed by economist Surjit Bhalla, part-time member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PM-EAC), the group will work on exchange rate management and impacts of trade wars.

The panel has been set up as a temporary measure and is set to meet for the next two months regularly, and then it will submit a report to the commerce ministry, a government official said.

It will also examine the prevailing trade dynamics and suggest

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