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India's gold demand declines by 26% to 190.3 tonnes in Jan-March quarter: WGC

21 May 2014 Evaluate

The World Gold Council (WGC), in its latest Gold Demand Trends report, highlighted that India’s gold demand declined by 26% to 190.3 tonnes during January-March quarter of 2014 as against 257.5 tonnes in the same period of previous year due to higher import duties and supply curbs imposed by the government. In value terms, domestic gold demand stood at Rs 48,853 crore in Q12014 versus Rs 73,184 crore Q1 of 2013, representing a 33% decline.     

The report further added that total jewellery demand during the period down 9% at 145.6 tonnes compared to 159.5 tonnes Q1 of 2013. Total investment demand for Q1 2014 was down by 54% at 44.7 tonnes from 98 tonnes in the same quarter last year. However, gold continued to enter India through unofficial channels, impacting domestic gold industry. The WCG expects Indian gold demand at around 900-1,000 tonnes for 2014.

Gold is the second largest import item for India after crude oil and is mainly utilised to meet the demand of jewellery industry. The government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had imposed restriction on gold imports to reduce the widening current account deficit (CAD). The curbs included higher import duty at 10 percent and linking the imports to exports with 20:80 scheme under which 20% of all gold imports by importers has to be re-exported. Meanwhile, these restrictions on gold imports have yielded results as the CAD is likely to improve at around 2% of GDP level during FY14 as against the record high of 4.8% of GDP in FY13.

However, the move has been adversely impacting the domestic jewellery exports. Indian gems and jewellery industry exports declined by 8.82% to $39.52 billion in FY14 from a year earlier. Meanwhile, there are expectations that new government will remove these short terms curbs in order to create a favorable system that deals with gold and other precious metals category.

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