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Exports jump 23% in September

Exports jump 23% in September

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New Delhi: India’s exports shot up by 23.2% year-on-year to $18.02 billion in September this fiscal, while faster import expansion increased concerns over the widening trade gap.

Imports for September grew by annual 26.1% to $27.14 billion, commerce secretary Rahul Khullar said here on Monday.

For the first half of the fiscal 2010-11, exports aggregated to $103.30 billion increasing by 27.6%.

The cumulative imports for this period went up to $166.5 billion leaving a large trade gap of $63.2 billion.

The trade deficit for September alone was $9.12 billion, the Secretary said.

The government has been monitoring the trade deficit, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma said on Saturday.

Khullar attributed increase in exports to a “very strong" low base of comparison last fiscal, when the global trade was hit by economic slowdown worldwide.

He said September was the “first month in which, exports were higher than (for a month) 2008-09".

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Published: 25 Oct 2010, 01:05 PM IST
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