Exports for the month of April rises by over 34 percent

01 Jun 2011 Evaluate

The country’s exports have witnessed good growth for the first month of the fiscal and expanded by over 34 percent in the month of April. However, exports growth was lower in comparison to the strong growth of 54 per cent in March. Consequently, the trade deficit rose to $8.98 billion in April from $5.6 billion in March and was lower than $11027.9 million during April 2010.India's exports grew a record 37.6 percent to $246 billion in the 2010-11 fiscal year that ended in March, as demand soared for engineering goods, oil products and gems manufactured in the country. Though, the imports in the 2010-11 fiscal stood at $350 billion, down by 21.6 per cent, and the trade deficit was $104 billion.

India’s Exports during April, 2011 were valued at $ 23849.32 million (Rs 105819.43 crore) higher by 34.42 percent in Dollar terms and 34.03 percent in Rupee terms, than the level of $ 17742.13 million (Rs 78951.58 crore) during April, 2010. India’s Imports during April, 2011 were valued at $ 32834.36 million (Rs 145686.06 crore) representing a growth of 14.13 percent in Dollar terms and 13.79 percent in Rupee terms over $ 28770.06 million ( Rs 128025.31 crore) in April, 2010.

Oil imports during April, 2011 were valued at $ 10185.9 million, higher by 7.7 percent than oil imports valued at $ 9454.0 million in the corresponding period last year. Non-oil imports during April, 2011 were estimated at $ 22648.4 million which was 17.3 per cent higher than non-oil imports of $ 19316.0 million in April, 2010. Engineering exports grew by a whopping 109%, electronic goods by 48%, gems and jewellery by 39% and petroleum and its products, plastics and linoleum by 30%. While imports of pearls and precious stones went up by 19% and gold imports rose by 60%. The government is targeting increasing exports in the current fiscal by at least 25% to $450 billion by 2013-14.   

 

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