India-Pakistan Trade Normalisation: The Unfinished Economic Agenda

396 Pages·2017·7.1 MB·English

by  Nisha Taneja

Nisha Taneja
Isha Dayal E ditors
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Contents
1 Emerging Issues in India–Pakistan Trade: An Introduction .. .... 1
Nisha Taneja, Rohan Ray, Isha Dayal and Samridhi Bimal
2 Agricultural Trade Between India and Pakistan: Status
and Potential .. .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 15
Ramesh Chand and Raka Saxena
3 Exploring the Trade in Textiles and Clothing Between India
and Pakistan .. .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 61
Nisha Taneja, Saon Ray and Devyani Pande
4 Assessing the Future of Trade in the Automobile Sector
Between India and Pakistan: Implications of Abolishing
the Negative List... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 93
Biswajit Nag
5 India–Pakistan Trade: Perspectives from the Automobile
Sector in Pakistan.. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 129
Vaqar Ahmed and Samavia Batool
6 India–Pakistan Trade: An Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Sector.... 163
Manoj Pant and Devyani Pande
7 India–Pakistan Trade: A Case Study of the Pharmaceutical
Sector.... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 219
Vaqar Ahmed and Samavia Batool
8 India’s Informal Trade with Pakistan... .... .... .... ..... .... 245
Nisha Taneja and Samridhi Bimal
9 India–Pakistan: Second Trade Perception Survey . .... ..... .... 271
Nisha Taneja, Mohammad Usman Khan, Isha Dayal
and Samridhi Bimal
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10 Facilitating India–Pakistan Trade Through the Land Route.. .... 313
Nisha Taneja, Isha Dayal and Samridhi Bimal
11 Munabao–Khokhrapar Land Route and India–Pakistan
Relations . .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 347
Tridivesh Singh Maini
12 Media Underreporting as a Barrier to India–Pakistan Trade
Normalization: Quantitative Analysis of Newsprint Dailies ... .... 373
Rahul Mediratta
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Nisha Taneja is Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International
Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India. She has a Ph.D. from the
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and has a wide range of experience in
policy-oriented research in India. Her key areas of interest include trade and
transport facilitation, non-tariff barriers, regional integration, informal trade, insti-
tutional economics and the textile industry. She has worked on various aspects of
India–Pakistan trade, India–Nepal trade, India–Sri Lanka trade, India–China trade,
India–Japan trade,India–Koreatrade,India–Bangladesh trade and India–Myanmar
trade on issues related to tariffs, sensitive lists, services, investment, non-tariff
measures, and trade and transport facilitation.
Dr. Taneja’s research work has been a key contributor to the trade negotiations
intheSouthAsianregion.ShehasservedoncommitteessetupbytheGovernment
of India on informal trade, rules of origin and non-tariff barriers. She has been a
consultant to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Dr. Taneja has
alsoconductedresearchforseveralgovernmentministries,bilateralandmultilateral
agencies.
Dr. Taneja has published three books, more than 50 articles in books and
journals and 35 reports/working papers. She is the co-editor of the book
India-PakistanTrade:StrengtheningEconomicRelations,publishedbySpringerin
August 2014. Her work has been disseminated widely in India and several other
countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka,Pakistan,Philippines,Thailand,
Korea, Japan, USA, UAE and Germany.
Isha Dayal is a Ph.D. candidate at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to this she was Research Associate
at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER),
New Delhi, associated with projects on India–Pakistan trade normalization sup-
ported by DFID and Japan Project supported by Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Her
research interests include trade policy and international economy, with focus on
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tradefacilitation,transitandconnectivity,regionalintegration,andinternationalaid
flows, and has worked on several research articles and papers on these themes.
Previously, Isha has been a consultant with the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), India, and Infrastructure Development Finance Company
(IDFCLtd.),NewDelhi.ShehasaBachelor’sdegreeinEconomicsfromMiranda
House, University of Delhi; and an M.Sc. Degree in Economic Development and
Policy Analysis from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Contributors
Vaqar Ahmed SDPI, Islamabad, Pakistan
Samavia Batool SDPI, Islamabad, Pakistan
Samridhi Bimal ICRIER, New Delhi, India
Ramesh Chand National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy
Research, New Delhi, India
Isha Dayal ICRIER, New Delhi, India
Tridivesh Singh Maini O.P. Jindal University, Sonipat, India
Rahul Mediratta Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Biswajit Nag Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India
Devyani Pande ICRIER, New Delhi, India
Manoj Pant Centre for International Trade and Development, School of
International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Rohan Ray ICRIER, New Delhi, India
Saon Ray ICRIER, New Delhi, India
Raka Saxena National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research,
New Delhi, India
Nisha Taneja ICRIER, New Delhi, India
Mohammad Usman Khan LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan
Abbreviations
ACMA Auto Component Manufacturers Association (India)
AIDP Auto Industry Development Programme
APIs Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
APMA Association of Pakistan’s Motorcycle Assemblers
APTTA Afghanistan–Pakistan Transit-Trade Agreement
APTU Technical standards and adoption of uniform technical
prescriptions for railway material
ATC Agreement on Textiles and clothing
ATMF Technicaladmissionofrailwayvehicles/railwaymaterialused
in international traffic
ATT Afghan Transit Trade
BIS Bureau of Indian Standards
BoI Board of Investment
BRCA Bilateral Revealed Comparative Advantage
BS Business Standard
CAGR Compound Average Growth Rate
CBU Completely Built Up
CBUs Completely Built Units
CCP Competition Commission of Pakistan
CDP Composite Dialogue Process
CIF Cost, Insurance and Freight
CIM Contracts of carriage for the international carriage goods
CITI Confederation of Indian Textile Industry
CIV Contracts of carriage for the international carriage of
passengers
CKD Completely Knocked Down
CONCOR Container Corporation of India Limited
COTIF Convention Concerning the International Transport of Goods
by Rail
CPD Convergent Parallel Design
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x Abbreviations
CPFTA China–Pakistan free trade area
CUI Contract on the use of railway infrastructure
CUV Contracts of Use of Vehicles
CV Coefficient of Variation
CVD Countervailing Duties
CWC Central Warehousing Corporation
DGCIS Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics
DOP Department of Pharmaceuticals
DRAP Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan
ECO Economic Cooperation Organization
EDB Engineering Development Board
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
ET Economic Times
FCL Full Container Load
FDGs Focus Group Discussions
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
FGD Focus Group Discussion
FOB Free on Board
FPCCI Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry
FTA Free Trade Agreement
GATT General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GNP Gross National Product
GoP Government of Pakistan
HC & NOx Hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides
HC, CO & NOx Hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides
HCV Heavy Commercial Vehicles
HIIT Horizontal Intra-Industry Trade
HS Classification Harmonized System of Classification
HS Harmon System
IBM Institute of Business Management
ICD Inland container depot
ICP Integrated Check Post
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IDC India Drive Cycle
IDMA Indian Drug Manufacturers Association
IIT Intra-Industry Trade
ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation
INR Indian Rupee
IPP Institute of Public Policy
IRU International Road Transport Union
ISDPs Industry Specific Deletion Programmes
IT Information Technology
ITC International Trade Centre
JICA Japan International Co-operation Agency