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Posted 01 Aug 2024

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Pursuant to Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF’s) Supply Chain Agreement, India and 13 other IPEF partners have established three supply chain bodies. These bodies include: 

  • Supply Chain Council: To pursue targeted, action-oriented work to strengthen supply chains for those sectors and goods most critical to national security, public health, etc.
  • Crisis Response Network: To provide a forum for a collective emergency response to exigent or imminent disruptions.
  • Labor Rights Advisory Board: To bring together workers, employers, and governments at the same table to strengthen labor rights and workforce development across regional supply chains.

Supply Chain Resilience (SCR)

  • SCR is the ability of a supply chain network to withstand disruptions and minimize the effects of upheaval on revenues, costs and customers.
    • Supply Chain is the interconnected journey of a raw materials, or products from their assembly to final sale.
  • Threats to SCR: Geo-political (e.g., disruption in energy supplies due to conflict between Russia-Ukraine), Economic (e.g., COVID-induced demand and supply shocks), etc.
  • Measures taken for SCR by India
    • Global: Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (Australia, India, and Japan), Quad Supply Chain Initiative, etc.
    • Domestic: PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan, National Logistics Policy, PLI Scheme for different sectors, etc.

About IPEF

  • Launched: In 2022 at Tokyo (Japan).
  • Members (14): Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and USA. 
  • Objective: To strengthen economic engagement among partner countries to advance growth, peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.
  • Four pillars: Trade (Pillar I); Supply Chain Resilience (Pillar II); Clean Economy (Pillar III); and Fair Economy (Pillar IV). 
    • India has joined Pillars II to IV of IPEF while it has maintained an observer status in Pillar-I.
  • Tags :
  • IPEF
  • Supply Chain Resilience
  • Supply Chain Resilience Initiative
  • Supply Chain Council
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