India is exploring India is exploring ways such as free trade agreements to enable domestic MSMEs to participate in public procurement of different countries, Commerce Secretary Sunil Barthwal said on Monday. He said that 10-15 per cent of the GDP of any country accounts for public procurement, which could be around USD 10-15 trillion in value terms. Several countries give preference to micro, small and medium enterprises MSMEs in their public procurement. In fact, there are various ways by which countries promote MSMEs, we also promote them in India in the sense that we give them special purchase preference. As more and more FTAs free trade agreements are getting signed...we are also looking at how MSMEs can have access to public procurement of different countries, so that Indian companies may get an opportunity... MSMEs from other countries can get access to our portal, Barthwal said here at an event.