Trade deficit narrows to nearly $21 billion in November

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Goods exports shrank 2.9% to $33.9 billion in November due to a decline in key product categories - engineering goods, petroleum products and garments..

The 4.4% fall in imports to $54.5 billion was driven by oil and coal...

While a fall in the value of crude oil and petrol and diesel shipments was on account of a decline in commodity prices, high inflation, and the consequent spike in interest rates in developed nations have dented discretionary demand.. secretary Sunil Barthwal said that given the global situation, India's exports numbers are healthy..

Latest data showed that in November services exports went up 6.6% to $28.7 billion, while imports fell 13% to $13.4 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of $15.3 billion, helping narrow the overall trade deficit to $5.3 billion...

For now, we maintain our current account deficit projections of $45 billion (1.2% of GDP) for FY23-24 and around $61 billion (1.5% of GDP) for FY24-25," said Rahul Bajoria, MD & head of EM Asia (ex-China) economics, Barclays.. president A Sakthivel attributed the decline to rising uncertainties, slow global economic recovery and demand and proposed easy and low-cost credit, marketing support in addition to interest equalisation to all sectors...

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