The Export Policy 1997-2002 has been designed to operate in the imperatives and opportunities of the market economy with a view to maximizing export growth and narrowing down the gap between import payment and export earnings.
The principal objectives of this policy are:
1. To achieve optimum national growth;
2. To narrow down the gap
between the export earning and import payment;
3. To more attract the exportable items into
international market through product diversification and quality improvement;
4. To establish backward linkage industries and services;
5. To simplify export procedures and to rationalize and solidify export incentives;
6. To develop and expand infrastructure;
7. To develop trained human resources in the export sector;
8. To raise the quality and
grading of
export products;