A function of international trade whereby goods produced in one country are shipped to another country for future sale or trade. The sale of such goods adds to the producing nation 's gross output. If used for trade, exports are exchanged for other products or services. Exports are one of the oldest forms of economic transfer, and occur on a large scale between nations that have fewer restrictions on trade, such as tariffs or subsidies. Exports have played an increasingly important role in India’s economic growth in the last two decades.
An export includes any:
1) Actual shipment of any covered goods or items
2) The electronic or digital transmission of any covered goods, items, or related goods or items
3) Any release or disclosure, including verbal disclosures or visual inspections, of any technology, software or technical data to any foreign national wherever located or
4) Actual use or application of covered technology on behalf of or for the benefit of any foreign entity or person anywhere.
A country’s export may grow due to four factors:
1) Growth of world export
2) Growth of export to relatively faster growing regions
3) Concentration of export in commodities for which demand is growing relatively fast and
4) The country in question may be competing more effectively with other importers.
For the first three factors the export-growth has been experienced even by maintaining a constant market share. However, the fourth factor, if effective, leads to an increase in relative market share. CMS (Constant Market Share) analysis can isolate the contribution of first three factors in the observed change in export between two points in time and the residual effect is designated as the change due to competitiveness.
EXPORT MANAGEMENT.
It is a form of management which is required to bring about coordination and integration of all those involved in an export business. It is thus, concerned with securing
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