Tajikistan is interested for more trade with India in sectors like garments and tea, according to the country’s ambassador to India Jalolov Mirzosharif. Indian jackets, T-shirts and boots had great visibility in Tajikistan a few years back but Indian producers and exporters perhaps could not keep pace and other nations like China took over, he said.
Indian tea used to have and still has a good reputation in Tajikistan, but is not available there, Mirzosharif told a meeting organized by the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) in New Delhi recently.Tajikistan is interested for more trade with India in sectors like garments and tea, according to the country's ambassador to India Jalolov Mirzosharif. Indian jackets, T-shirts and boots had great visibility in Tajikistan a few years back but Indian producers and exporters perhaps could not keep pace and other nations like China took over, he said.#
The economic relationship between India and Tajikistan was elevated to strategic partnership level in 2012, making the latter the third central Asian country to sign such an agreement with India, a news agency report quoted him as saying.
FIEO eastern region chairman Nari Kalwani said the bilateral trade between the two nations rose from $20.44 million in 2016-17 to $23.97 million in 2017-18. (DS)
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