Volume : III, Issue : VII, July - 2014

Changing Perspective of Indo–Nigerian Trade Relations

Kabiru Hannafi Ibrahim, Mr. Dilfraz Singh

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This study analyzed India’s merchandise import and export from and to the Nigeria using simple statistical tables, graphs and by using trade intensity formula. The trends in India–Nigeria trade were found to be increasing throughout the whole periods 2000–2013. The composition of India’s merchandize trade with Nigeria shows that major commodities of India’s import from Nigeria constitutes 99.48% of India’s total import from Nigeria for the whole periods 2000–2013 and 2.44% of the total India’s import. India’s major commodities exported to Nigeria accounts for 67.28% of the total India’s export to Nigeria for the whole period 2000–2013 and accounts for 0.56% of the world India’s export in the same period. The trade indices shows that India’s import intensity is less intense from 2001 to 2005, while in the years 2000 and 2006–2012 it has high intense value. The trade and export intensity is high intense in the whole periods.

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Kabiru Hannafi Ibrahim, Mr. Dilfraz Singh Changing Perspective of Indo-Nigerian Trade Relations Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue.7 July 2014

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