Expressing optimism about India’s exports growth prospects, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said that the country’s exports recorded healthy growth during the first three weeks of May. He also said that while the world is going through a turmoil, India is relentlessly rising on global stage as it is recording health growth in exports and foreign direct investment (FDI). Exports rose by 13.78% to $43.56 billion in April, the highest monthly outbound shipments in more than four years, driven by petroleum products amid a surge in crude oil prices, but trade deficit widened to a three-month high of $28.38 billion due to an uptick in imports. For May, the commerce ministry will officially release the export and import data on June 15.
The minister said that FDI during 2025-26 has touched an all-time high of $95 billion, an increase of 17% year on year. He said this growth will continue in the years to come given the favour that India enjoys amongst global investors as a preferred investment destination. He added ‘The government has absorbed significant amounts of costs, particularly for the farmers in terms of elevated fertiliser prices, which have not been passed on to farmers, but the burden has been taken fully by the central government’. He said that the government is also continually introducing initiatives to support economic growth. The high growth in FDI reflects global investors' appetite for India.
He informed that the ministry has held an inter-ministerial meeting with industry associations on ways to boost domestic manufacturing. The ministry has received suggestions from sectors such as capital goods, optical fibres and chemicals. In the meeting, he said the ministry has shared import data and data on sectors with export potential. He said ‘We will put data in the public domain also...as opportunity will pull investment’, and added that from time to time, plans are made to provide incentives to different sectors as per their needs.
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