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India’s imports of gold jump 22% in 2017-18

30 Jul 2018 Evaluate

The Commerce Ministry’s data showed that India’s gold imports, which have a bearing on the current account deficit (CAD), jumped around 22.31% to $33.65 billion in 2017-18 as compared to $27.51 billion in 2016-17. In 2015-16, the imports stood at $31.7 billion.

Increase in gold imports pushed the country's trade deficit to $157 billion in the last fiscal, an increase of about 45% as compared to the year ago period. In order to mitigate the negative impact of gold imports on trade deficit and CAD, the government took certain measures to cut the inbound shipments of the yellow metal.

Those measures include imposition of restriction on duty free gold imports from the South Korea as allowed under the existing India-Korea free-trade agreement, and imposition of self-use condition on Premiere Trading House/Star Trading House authorised to import the precious metal (gold) directly from overseas bullion supplier. These steps yielded desired results as the imports dipped by 31.25% to $6.05 billion during April-May 2018.

On the other hand, to push exports of gems and jewellery, the industry has time and again asked the government to reduce gold import duty to 5% from the current 10%. The gems and jewellery exports in 2017-18 declined to $41.5 billion as against $43.4 billion in the previous fiscal.

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