India’s Foreign Trade

PROJECTS
(Faculty: A. K. Sengupta)

1. The course on India’s Foreign Trade is of 100 Marks comprising 70 marks

for end-term exam and 30 marks for internal assessment.
2. The internal assessment will be based on a project assignment.
3. Students have to form groups of maximum of 9 students for preparing the
project reports.. Students can also form groups with less than 9 students.
4. Each group will make power-point presentation in the class for 20 minutes.
The presentation will carry 15 marks. A write up on the same subject in the
form a report will need to be submitted on the day of the end-term exam of
the course to the coordinator of the Programme (Mr. Navneet Handa).
5. The entire exercise will be a joint effort of each member of the group. A
group leader may be selected by the students of the concerned group who
will make the presentation supplemented by other students (if necessary) in
the group who will be nominated by the group-leader.
6. The cover page must have the title of the project, which should be clear to
convey the objective of the project. (It can run into two lines also) Names
of the group members along with their roll numbers and session & section
must be written on the cover page.
7. There must be a content sheet.
8. The introductory chapter must give the Background of the topic,
objectives, methodology, chapter scheme and limitations.
9. Students may choose a topic having relevance to International Marketing.
10. For product-specific projects, presentation may be made on the basis of the
following sections:.
1. The status of the industry in India
2. International situation
3. Export Outlook
 4. Strategy for Export Development.
- Problems of Production and recommendations
- Problem of export marketing and recommendations

11. A specimen list of topics is given below:

1) Agricultural Products
2) Processed Fruits and Vegetables
3) Floriculture
4) Rice
5) Tea
6) Spices
7) Jute & Jute Products
8) Medical herbs
9) Marine Products
10)Poultry
11)WTO and its impact on Agricultural Exports from India.
12)Readymade garments
13)Handloom furnishing & made ups
14)Textiles & Clothings (the entire industry)
15)Tourism
16)Health care services
17)Trade in Services (all types of services)
18)Banking & Insurance
19)India as a hub for R & D services
20) I.T-. enabled services (BPO, call centres etc.)
21)Handicrafts
22)Gift Items
23)Artificial / Costume Jewellery
24)Gold Jewellery
25)Precious & semi precious stones
26)Sports goods
27)Engineering goods (the industry as a whole)
28)Auto parts
29)Automobile exports
30)Writing Instruments
31)Herbal Cosmetics
32)Chemicals exports
33)Leather Footwear
34)Leather garments
35)Leather goods (handbags, purses etc.)
36)Industrial Leather Products (industrial gloves)
37)Leather & Leather Manufacturers (the industry as a whole)
38)Books & Publication exports
39)Cycle & Cycle parts exports
40)Pharmaceuticals Exports
41)Exports of Iron & Steel
42)Computer Software
43)Electronics goods
44)Domestic Appliances
45)Coir & Coir products
46)Carpets (handmade/machine made)
47)WTO: Retrospect and Prospects
48)Enlargement of European Union and its impact on India’s Exports
49)Intellectual Property Rights and India
50)Anti-dumping measures-a case study in Indian context
51)An analysis of India’s Exports – both composition -wise & direction-
wise
52)K.V.I.C. Products ( Khadi Village Industries Products)
53)Handmade paper
54)Special Economic Zone in India- Its strengths and weaknesses.
55)Doing Business in India – India as a Market for Exports and Investment
by countries abroad.
56) Formation of Trade Blocs eg. NAFTA, EU, Asean –Implication on
India’s Exports
57)Export of Branded Readymade Garments
58)Current Retail Landscape of India
59)Role of States in Export Promotion
60)Export opportunities for Small & Medium scale units in India
Performance and analysis of Policies
61)Globalization of Education services