<h1>Trade and export strategy urges tapping regional markets to boost manufacturing competitiveness and inform a national policy roadmap.</h1> India's trade and industrial policy priorities focus on unlocking export potential to neighbouring markets and strengthening the domestic manufacturing base through incentives, regulatory simplification, improved Ease of Doing Business and district-level growth measures to better integrate firms into regional value chains. A DIPP-led national exercise with industry stakeholders will produce an actionable policy roadmap from a two-day workshop targeting key manufacturing sectors and horizontal pillars-cost of doing business, trade policy, technology and R&D, and skills and job creation-to be submitted to nodal ministries for coordinated implementation.