European Union (EU) rejections on Indian seafood exports have gone down consistently in last five years. What is significant is that the rejection rate has refused to slip from its low plateau, despite EU raising its rejection benchmarks by as much as five times. “After the recent revision in EU’s export quality bar, the rejections of seafood exports could have been as high as 50%, compared to the earlier standards that had effected 10% rejections.

India’s exports grew at its fastest pace in multiple years by 17.5% in February while imports were up 21.8%, government data showed on Wednesday. Analysts were cautious in indicating to a revival in global trade and uptick in industrial growth as the February numbers came on the back of a decline in exports and imports in the same month last year.

Spanish exports reached a record 254.53 billion euros in 2016. Last year, 1.7% in value, a growth rate above that registered in economies such as Germany (+ 1.2%), Italy (+1,1%), France (-0.9%), the United Kingdom (-0.2%), the United States (-3.2%), China (-6.4%) or Japan (-7.4%).

The Spanish export of plums, peaches and nectarines to China in 2016 totaled 815 tons worth 1.32 million Euro, according to the latest data (up to October) provided by the Directorate General of Customs.

Rubber Board expects the natural rubber (NR) exports from India to touch 5000 tones this fiscal with international prices ruling over the domestic prices. Owing to unattractive relative prices, India’s exports have been negligible since 2013-14. In 2015-16, the total NR exports from the country were 865 tones. This fiscal, from April to October, the exports were 650 tones. However, shipments started gaining momentum from the second half of November with the spurt in international prices.

CIL (Coal India) is exploring opportunities to export Indian coal having high ash content or high grade coal to the neighboring countries as the demand for such type of coal is comparatively less in the domestic market.

India hopes to improve grape exports this season. According to the All India Grape Exporters Association president, Jagannath Khapre, around 1.92 lakh tonne was the previous record for Indian grape exports and the country is likely to cross this mark this year, due to a good monsoon and the prevailing good weather conditions in the grape growing regions. On the other hand, the table grape crop in Chile is expected to suffer a loss of 15% to 20% as a result of the unfavourable climate this season and the devastating impact of El Nino.

B2B business with India. During our visit in India, the board of edando, visited several suppliers from different sectors, where they could see their offices and also discuss new projects for 2017. In addition they attented PackPlus 2016 in New Delhi.

edando is a customized online B2B platform that offers commercial services and aims to create a link between companies of Spain and India. Our company is known for putting the customer first, maximizing the quality of their business and offering new opportunities in an honest and loyal way.

One of the most traded products between the Canary Islands and Indian companies has been aluminum foil. edando has an exclusive contract with one of the largest suppliers of aluminum foil India, Rockdude Impex Pvt. Ltd.

India could soon replace China as the world's leading textile manufacturer, with the latter shifting its focus on manufacturing activities, said the president of South India Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Palani G Periyasamy, on Friday. He also urged the domestic textile industry to focus on modernisation and keep itself updated on the latest trends to remain globally competitive.