RESEARCH PROPOSAL

DOHA MINISTERIAL – IMPLICATIONS ON INDIAN TEXTILE

INDUSTRY

Submitted To – Prof. Dr. P.P. Rao

Submitted By – Mr. Shreyan Joshi

Roll no. – 1563

6th Semester, 3rd Year

INTRODUCTION

The textile and apparel industry is one of the leading segments of the Indian economy and the
largest source of foreign exchange earnings for India. This industry accounts for 4% of the GDP,
about 14% of the national industrial production and about 35% of the total national export
earnings.188 Textiles and Clothing is the largest manufacturing sector in India. This sector
provides employment to about 38 million people and is the largest employer after agriculture.189
India accounted for 3.45% of world textile and clothing trade and ranked 8th in 2001. Although
India’s current share of the global textile and apparel trade is small, the Government of India in
the National Textile policy 2000 envisages that India’s textiles and apparel exports will reach
$50 billion by 2010, of which the share of garments will be US$25 billion. Liberalisation has
directly affected this sector as exports constitute roughly 50% of the total production of textiles
and garments.

The implementation of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is expected to lead to an
increase in world trade, with apparel being the primary category. In the post ATC era, if the
Indian Textile industry were to remain competitive, it has to maintain quality, consistency and
commitment to tight delivery schedules. There is a need to have large scale global capacities that
have the capability of delivering and liaising with the very large scale buyers in the export
markets. These would have the capability of realizing economies of scale, achieve world
benchmarks in production efficiencies and keep costs down. To expand its product basket which
is heavily biased towards cotton products, India needs to develop the sources for synthetic
fabrics and blends to increase its share in apparel trade. R&D, design, market knowledge,
logistics are becoming very important and critical functions

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The objective of this research project is to –

 Study the impact of Uruguay Rounds on the Indian Textile Industry.

 Analyse the impact of Doha Ministerial conference on India’s textile industry.
 Study the impact of the conference on formal and informal sector employment.
SCOPE AND LIMITATION

This project is limited in its scope due to paucity of time, multiplicity of areas to be covered due
to the inherent vastness of the subject matter and limited financial resources. However, the
researcher has aimed to keep a fairly broad scope in order to gain a complete picture of the topic.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This study involves the use of doctrinal method of research. The information will be gleaned
from various books on the subject of International Trade Law, articles and published research
works.

HYPOTHESIS

Textile is a high growth sector and shows a very high growth potential (especially in garments)
with the removal of ATC quotas and with tariff reductions due to the Doha Ministerial
Conference.

LIST OF CHAPTERS

1. INTRODUCTION
2. BACKGROUND OF DOHA MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE.
3. THE MULTIFIBRE AGREEMENT
4. COMPETITIVENESS OF INDIAN TEXTILE SECTOR
5. APPLICATION OF TRADE REMEDY MEASURES ON TEXTILE PRODUCTS.
6. CONCLUSION
7. BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

S.R. Myneni, International Trade Law.

Koul Autar Krishan, General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade and WTO: Law, Economics and
Politics.