FTP -Tomorrow?

By Vijay Kumar

THE current Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14 ends today. Does it mean there would be no foreign trade policy from tomorrow? Not exactly! The new Foreign Trade Policy is to be launched tomorrow. And the world comes to know about this through a twitter message from the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Ms.Nirmala Sitharaman. She tweeted, "FTP to be released on 1st April, 2015 at 3:30 pm in Vigyan Bhawan." Beyond this there is no official communication.

The last supplement to the Policy was on 18.04.2013.

Let us hope the new policy will promote the ease of doing business.