2nd, July, 2002
Ministry of Commerce  


RUDY RELEASES FOREIGN TRADE PROMOTERS AND FACILITATORS DIRECTORY


Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, has released "Target Foreign Trade – Promoters & Facilitators Directory 2002-03" here recently. The Minister said, on this occasion, that the export forms an important component of trade promotion and expressed hope that this Directory would prove indispensable for all export promotion organisations, development authorities, institutions, foreign trade community and exporters in India and abroad. Shri Rudy said that this publication will give useful information at a single place regarding export-import sector and the modalities involved in the export-import procedures in India. He informed that Government of India is making all efforts to increase India’s share in world trade to 1% by 2007 and there is need for the government and the industries to work together to achieve this target.

The Directory has been published by the Target Media Network, New Delhi. This is the first time in India that this type of publication has come to provide the information about Export Promotion Councils, Commodity Board, Export Processing Zones (EPZs) Financial Institutions, Apex trade & industry organisations, International Service Providers etc.