DGFT rolls out inventory-based e-Commerce export framework for promotion of digital crossborder trade

In brief 

A key initiative in the Foreign Trade Policy, 2023 (FTP 2023), was encouraging the growth of cross border trade in the digital economy, with a special focus on promoting e-commerce emerging from India. The detailed guidelines for establishment of e-commerce export hubs (ECEH) was laid down in this context. 

Given the current focus on pushing export growth, and encouraging small and medium enterprise exporters, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has sought to provide a focused impetus to the initiative by rolling out and operationalising inventory-based cross-border e-commerce export including the usage of ECEHs¹.