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]]>As per the department’s records, the country displayed a decline in trade balance worth Rs 103 trillion during the review period. When compared, the import figures stood at Rs 10 trillion and the export figures at Rs 74.32 billion.
Over the passage of time, the imports shot up by 23.82 percent in comparison with a 10.46 percent jump in experts.
During the period of mid-July 2017 and mid-June 2018, the country’s ‘export-import ratio’ was 1:14.9 indicating an import spend of Rs 14.9 against an export earning of every Rs 1.
Explaining the situation, former Commerce Secretary Purushottam Ojha says factors like supply constraints and underlying non-tariff barriers with trading partner countries like India have been responsible for Nepal’s poor exports.
It is important to note that India is Nepal’s only biggest trading partner with the total trade of 65 percent.
Ojha feels that Nepal experiences challenges over exporting products such as vegetables, aromatic plants and herbs to India.
“Although the Nepal-India Trade Treaty revised in 2009 talks about improving cooperation for trade, it has not happened in practice,” says Ojha.
Some Trends in the Nepal’s Trade Business during FY 2017-18:
DoC records depict increasing dissatisfactory trade with countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, China and Thailand.
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