With Trump’s tariffs sparking a trade war between the world’s two largest economies, India needs to raise its manufacturing game, secures its supply chains and expands its export markets to protect itself from global volatility.
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Aditi Ray Chowdhury is a Correspondent with Outlook Business and covers sustainability, green jobs, e-mobility, MSME and agri-sustainability. Before this she worked with News18 at their breaking news desk. A graduate in Mass Communication and Journalism, she also holds a PGD in Intergrated Multimedia Journalism from Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
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