Institutions engaged in Export effort
fall in Six distinct tiers
At the top is the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of
Commerce. This is the main organization to formulate and guide
India’s trade policy. At the second tier, there are deliberative
and consultative organisations to ensure that export problems
are comprehensively dealt with after mutual discussions between
the Government and the Industry. At the third tier are the
commodity specific organisations which deal with problems
relating to individual commodities and/or groups of commodities.
The fourth tier consists of service institutions which
facilitate and assist the exporters to expand their operations
and reach out more effectively to the world markets. The fifth
tier consists of Government trading organizations specifically
set up to handle export/import of specified commodities and to
supplement the efforts of the private enterprise in the field of
export promotion and import management. Agencies for export
promotion at the State level constitute the sixth tier.
