Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will brainstorm on issues such as export promotion, monitoring of infrastructure projects, import substitution, increasing logistics efficiency and leveraging the government e-market place at a joint meeting of the Board of Trade and the Council of Trade Development and Promotion in New Delhi on June 6.

“Discussions will be held on various issues relating to promotion of exports and domestic manufacturing and reduction in imports. Issues related to improvement in logistics, agricultural export will also be discussed,” according to an official release.

Secretaries of the Departments of Commerce, Revenue, Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Civil Aviation, Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Agriculture, Information Technology and Textiles will participate in the high-level joint meeting along with representatives of export promotion councils and representatives of industry.

The Board of Trade includes top corporates including Anand Mahindra from the Mahindra Group, Pawan Munjal from Hero Motocorp, Ramesh Chandra from Unitech, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw from Biocon, K Satish Reddy from Dr Reddy’s, Habil Khorakiwala from Wockhardt, Shiv Nadar from HCL and Sanjay Kirloskar from Kirloskar Brothers.

The Board advises the Commerce and Industry Ministry on policy measures related to the Foreign Trade Policy in order to achieve the objectives of boosting India’s trade.

The Council for Trade Development and Promotion provides for dialogue with States/UTs on measures for providing an international trade enabling environment.

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