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Gold imports decline by 9% to $24.64 billion during April-January of FY20

17 Feb 2020 Evaluate

The new estimates by the Commerce Ministry showed that India has marked a 9% decline in gold imports during the period of April 2019 to January 2020 to $24.64 billion compared to last year same period's $27 billion. India is the largest importer of gold. Gold imports directly affect the current account deficit (CAD) of India. 

The present dip in bullion imports has helped in trimming the country's trade deficit to $133.27 billion during April-January of FY20 as against $163.27 billion a year ago. Imports of gold have been showing negative trend since July last year. Even though, it was higher during October and November last year. And during December it contract by 4% and down by 31.5% in January this year.

In volume terms, the country imports 800-900 tonnes of gold annually. To comply with the negative impact of gold imports on trade deficit and CAD, the government had increased the import duty on the metal to 12.5% from 10%. Exporting of Gems and jewelry has been fell by 1.45% to $25.11 billion in April-January this FY 19-20, while the overall gold imports dipped about 3% in value terms to $32.8 billion in 2018-19.

Imports of rough diamonds contracted 15.54% to about $11 billion during April-January 2019-20. Though, import of gold bars rose by 3.56% to $6.6 billion during the period. As per Reserve Bank's data, CAD narrowed to 0.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) or $6.3 billion in July-September 2019 from 2.9% of GDP or $19 billion in the corresponding period last year.

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