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Moreh namphalong border trade

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  • Reimeingam, Marchang

    (Institute for Social and Economic Change)

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Level of border trade (BT) taking place at Moreh-Namphalong markets along Indo-Myanmar border is low but significant. BT is immensely linked with the third economies like China which actually supply goods. Moreh BT accounts to two percent of the total India-Myanmar trade. It is affected by the bandh and strikes, insurgency, unstable currency exchange rate and smuggling that led to an economic lost for traders and economy at large. India experiences a negative BT balance as the potential export items are not produced in Moreh. Opening of BT at Moreh has benefited the local border people in terms of employment, infrastructural development and also improves trade and other relationship between India and Myanmar. Myanmar is critical for India not only for BT partner but also for India’s Look East Policy (LEP) for developing strategic and economic relations with East and South East Asian countries

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  • Reimeingam, Marchang, 2015. "Moreh namphalong border trade," Working Papers 346, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
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    1. Renaud Egreteau, 2010. "India's Unquenched Ambitions in Burma," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Lowell Dittmer (ed.), Burma Or Myanmar? The Struggle For National Identity, chapter 11, pages 295-326, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    2. Kubo, Koji & Nu, Nu Lwin, 2010. "Smuggling and import duties in Myanmar," IDE Discussion Papers 258, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
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