About ABS and its Achievements
Academy
of Business Studies (ABS), New Delhi is a group of professionals with
backgrounds of management, law and IT. The organisation
started operations in 1983 and operates from a modest flat at Ansari Road in the
publishing district of Delhi. Recently, we have acquired a 165 sq. yard
property in New Ashok Nagar near Noida in expansion.
Over
the last 25 years, the Academy has made significant original contributions in
bringing transparency to Exim Policy and tariff affairs besides adding to the
body of knowledge on trade issues.
It
builds databases on government policies particularly export and import policy,
custom tariff, foreign exchange and other issues in international trade. The
popular book Easy Reference Customs Tariff 2011-2012,
31st edition (September 2011), along with the update service called Weekly Index of Changes examples are published by ABS.
The ABS Consultancy Service provides advisory services
on trade matters, particularly on trade policies and procedures, duty
structure, and WTO issues to international organisations,
governments and the private sector.
The promoter
ABS
was founded by Arun Goyal. He is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He is a trade
expert known by his trade column in Economic Times. He appears regularly on
public and private platforms in India and abroad.
Our current activities and past achievements:
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Design and implementation of online FDI application
system for DEA, Min of Finance, Govt of India. The
site is up and running at www.fipbindia.com
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Design management and daily updation
of website www.custadaindia.com on Customs Tariff for
Economic Division, Ministry of Finance.
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Design, management and daily updation
of website www.worldtradescanner.com covering database and
daily updation of world trade, customs, excise and
import policy.
·
ABS News Service is
accredited to Government of India. Recently, it has started publication of Daily Index of
Changes for specified users as well as the web sites and Newspapers
on trade matters.
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Worked with APEDA to suggest
a revised ITC(HS) Coding system at eight digit level
for agri items covering Chapter 1 to 24 based on DTR
data. Findings presented to Agri Industries all over
India and also to Ministry of Commerce.
·
Analysed
the structure of India’s imports in a big project based on DTR data for
Ministry of Finance with ISID in 1991. This was the beginning of actual analysis
of DTR and was the path braker at that time.
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The Academy has worked on
the concept subject of WTO since 1994 with the support of World Trade Centre,
Mumbai and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Edited the state of art
compilation WTO in
the New Millennium: Commentary, Case Law, Legal Texts
over five editions. Personally monitored all six WTO Ministerial starting from
Singapore (1996) Geneva (1998), Seattle (1999), Doha (2001), Cancun (2003) and
Hong Kong (2005). We also edit and publish the World
Trade Scanner, an international weekly on WTO and other current
topics of global trade. All six WTO Ministerial have been personally monitored
by ABS.
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A project on the Coding of
Exim Policy on Hazardous Wastes assigned by the Ministry of Environment and
Forests New Delhi was successfully completed in February 2003.
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Assignments to rewrite the
Export and Import Policy along with reorganisation of
Export Licensing Policy were completed successfully in 2003-2004. ABS works
closely with the European Commission and World Bank on trade policy in India
and South Asia.
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