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INDIAN TRADE POLICIES IN THE WAKE OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL
AND ECONOMIC CRISIS
Garry Pursell*
*Visiting Fellow, ASARC. Contact at [email protected]
Power point presentation at the Indian Economy and Update Conference sponsored by the Australia South Asia Research Centre, Australian National
University, Canberra Australia on Thursday, 17 Sept 2009
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Outline(1) The state of trade liberalization before the crisis :
around FY 06/07(2) Global turbulence and India’s trade since FY 07(3) Policy reactions: the exchange rate(4) Policy reactions: manufacturing (5) Policy reactions: agriculture(6) Policy reactions: the oil and gas sector(7) Policy reactions: fertilizers(8) Policy reactions: anti-dumping(9) The crisis and future policies
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(1) The state of trade liberalization before the crisis : around FY 06/07
ManufacturingNearly all QRs goneLow tariffs : on average <10%Rapidly growing exports
AgricultureAggregate implicit protection low or only mildly positive
BUT prohibitive “just in case” tariffs Continuing role of STEs (e.g. FCI & NAFED)Continuing & growing input subsidiesContinuing use of export controls and export subsidies
Services tradeRapid growth of IT & outsourcing exports in a free trade policy environment
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Indian trade policy liberalization: the main exceptionsAgricultureOil & gasFertilizers Textiles and clothingThe auto sectorAnti-dumping
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India 1965-2005: Assistance for ag & livestock sectors versus assistance for manufacturing & mining sectors
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Fig 1India 2002/03-2006/07: Unweighted average tariffs
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(2) Global turbulence and India’s trade since FY 07
Exports and imports: boom and collapse Oil and gas: extreme world price instability The link to other commodies: urea The link to ag and mineral commodities
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India: total merchandise exports & imports 1996/97 to 2008/09 ($US billiion)
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India FY 1991 -2009: Net invisibles
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India total merchandise exports quarterly FY 2000- 2001 to 2008-09 ($US billion)
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India: total merchandise imports quarterly 2000/01-2008/09
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India: Total merchandise exports & imports net of HS 27, 1996/97 to 2007/08
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India: HS 27 (mineral fuels) exports and imports 1996/97 to 2007/08 ($US billion)
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Share of POL net imports in total non-POL exports FY 1996/97 to 2008/09
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Indian trade with Australia 1996/97 -2008/09
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World crude oil and urea prices (monthly averages) Jan 1996-June 2009
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(3) Policy reactions: the exchange rate
India Jan 1980-March 2009: Monthly REER indices base 2000=100 (Total trade weights: Increase = devaluation)
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India: REER index Apl 04 to June 09 (Increase=devaluation)
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(4) Policy reactions: manufacturing
During the export and domestic boom years: trade liberalization facilitated. Little resistance to the FY 03-FY 08 tariff reduction program
Reemergence of protectionist/interventionist pressures during FY 09 largely pre-empted by Rupee devaluation
No serious backtracking in the 2008 budget, or in the 2009 interim & final budgets
But no further progress either: the principal exceptions to open non-interventionist trade policies in manufacturing remain viz:
Prohibitive specific tariffs protecting low value textiles and garmentsProhibitive auto tariffs …still 60%Fertilizer production… highly distortionary policies continue (see below)Anti-dumping….the joker in the pack. See below
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(5) Policy reactions: agriculture
Continuing overriding objective: domestic availability and domestic price stability
To achieve these objectives highly interventionist policies continued and became more marked during the 2007 & 2008 commodity world price boom and collapse. These have included:
Export controls on exportables (e.g. rice) to insulate domestic markets from world price increases. India’s controls in turn exacerbated world price instability and hurt some of its neighbours (in particular Bangladesh)Drastic tariff reductions on importables (e.g. palm oil) to insulate domestic markets. These reductions also exacerbated world price instabilityLarge changes in applied tariffs & the use of export controls and subsidies to stabilize domestic markets (e.g. especially sugar markets)
Continued very large and growing agricultural input subsidies, especially for fertilizers and electricity
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(6) Policy reactions: the oil and gas sector
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India 1997/98 to 2008/09: Annual average retail petroleum product prices and crude oil import prices in constant 2007/08 Rupees
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Comparison of retail gasoline prices August 2009
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-0.51-5.8-24919Net revenue-0.65-7.5-31979"Upstream Assistance"-1.45-16.7-71313Oil bonds1.5918.378373Customs & excise revenue
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GOI 2008/09: Net revenue from petroleum sector
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(7) Policy reactions: fertilizers
India 1982‐2009: Urea prices in constant 2007‐08 prices
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India FY 1982-FY 2009: Comparison of domestic urea producer prices with import prices (in constant 2007/08 $US)
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India 2001/02-2007/08: Comparison of urea import prices with domestic producer ("retention") prices and with producer prices adjusted for
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???Gas feedstock subsidy
1.9421.495848TOTAL official subsidy
0.414.520000Fertilizer bonds
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(8) Policy reactions: anti-dumping
India: Number of Anti-Dumping notifications calendar 1992-2008
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30Source: WTO
5418 others12USA13Taipei17Bulagaria17EU17Korea38China
No of measuresCountries affected
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Indian AD definitive
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120TOTAL1Mexico
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WTO: no of new AD initiations July 1-Dec 31 09
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(9) The crisis and future policies
Manufacturing…remains open & serious backtracking averted, but needed reforms delayed: especially T&C, autos, & fertilizer sectors. But it’s encouraging that on the whole open policies have continued in petrochemicals (caveat…anti-dumping!!)
Ag…serious long term set back for needed trade lib, including on the export side Petroleum and natural gas: If world crude prices stay at or above $70/barrel &
unless there are large new discoveries of crude &/or natural gas, something will have to give. The 2008/09 subsidies and even the prospective 2009/10 subsidies are just too big.
Fertilizer: a long term well recognized problem. Huge distortions and huge subsidies. As with POL, if world crude and therefore world nitrogenous fertilizer prices stay high something will have to give. In this case it has to involve real increases in the farm price & major reforms to the domestic industry
Anti-dumping: the joker in the pack. How protective?…nobody really knows. Serious attention and serious study is badly needed
Excellent exchange rate management by the RBI: has helped fend off counter productive QRs & tariff increases. Flexible ex rate management is now politically acceptable …a revolution compared to attitudes 20 years ago.