What areas of investment and bilateral trade with India are especially attractive to Germany?
German imports from India have traditionally been dominated by textiles and leather goods. This situation is, however, changing in order to reflect India s potential with regard to industrial production, particularly in future-oriented sectors. For example, in the first six months of 1995 and 1996 there has been an impressive increase of 32 per cent and 37 per cent, respectively, in Indian exports to Germany in the field of chemicals and vehicles. This is a welcome and a necessary development, since India would be unable to sufficiently strengthen its position in the world market solely on the basis of its traditional exports. The Indian Government sees the expansion of infrastructure as a primary task. German business has a lot to offer in this respect; for example, re g a rding traffic routes and means of mass transport, energy production and distribution and telecommunications. I am sure that once the infrastructure bottlenecks have been removed and, following further progress in li
