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Analyse the pattern of India’s trade with the S-E Asian countries.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Transport, Communication and Trade

ASEAN accounts for roughly 11% of India's total foreign trade in the standard direction-of-trade series and is India's fourth-largest export market, yet the flow is concentrated, deficit-bearing and far below what proximity predicts.

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  • The pattern is large in value, narrow in composition and structurally unbalanced
  • Country concentration
  • Commodity pattern
  • The persistent deficit
  • Low utilisation and leakage
  • Verdict

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