Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma expressed optimism over India’s exports and said that the recent pick-up in domestic exports’ will continue through the rest of the financial year despite the global slowdown. The country exports grew by 11.64 percent in the month of July, while imports recorded a negative growth of 6.20 percent in the reported month.
On high crude oil imports, Sharma said that since it is an energy requirement for the country, India has little scope to reduce imports; therefore we need to look at other options. Referring to high gold imports, Commerce minister said that both the government and the RBI are taking measures to curb the gold imports. During the April-June quarter of 2013, India witnessed record gold imports of 310 tonnes, highest in the last ten years.
Admitting that Indian economy is facing strong downturn, Commerce Minister said that an atmosphere of 'negative narrative' in the country cast adverse impact on the economy and contributed to the present crisis. Meanwhile, regardless of Q1 FY14 GDP growth, which slowed down to four year low at 4.4 percent, Commerce minister is confident that the domestic economy will grow at 5.5 percent in the current fiscal on the back of strong economic fundamentals.
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