Overview

• Goyal convened heads of commercial wings at 74 missions across 61 countries via video conference to review and strengthen India’s global trade outreach.
• He instructed them to proactively identify sector-specific export opportunities and share best practices for trade promotion and investment attraction.
• Missions must align with the Department of Commerce and Export Promotion Councils through data-driven planning using the DGFT Trade Connect Portal.
• The minister urged strategic interventions to dismantle non-tariff, sanitary and phytosanitary, and technical barriers to trade.
• India’s exports held at $35.14 billion in June as the trade deficit narrowed to $18.78 billion, and April–June exports climbed 1.92% to $112.17 billion.