Wednesday, March 2

India’s Foreign Trade Facts & Figures – Economic Survey 2016 Key Points

Still away with the facts of India’s foreign trade and figures, revealed in Economic Survey 2016? Have a glimpse of complete package on India’s key economic areas in simple form right here!

 
  è India’s Foreign Trade:


India’s total export value, which is in negative since December 2014, is likely to pick up, according to India Economic Survey 2016.

Exports declined further more to 13.6% in January 2016 to USD 21 billion, which was down for the 14th month in a row. Fall in shipments of engineering goods and petroleum products were the major factor for this economic scenario, although trade deficit showed improvement. Exports dipped by 17.65% to USD 217.67 billion during 2015-16 as against USD 264.32 billion during 2014-15. Chemicals, textiles, gems & jewellery, petroleum products and engineering were the top contributors in the export value.

As far as imports are concerned, these declined by 15.46% to USD 324.52 billion for the 10 months of 2015-16. This resulted to USD 106.8 billion trade deficit during the same fiscal. The trade gap was USD 119.55 billion in April-January 2014-15.



è       GDP Growth:

Economic Survey 2015-16 projects that the real GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for the current financial year and for 2016-17 will be in the range of 7-7.5%, lower than 8.1-8.5% projected in the last survey.

 

             è        Inflation:

CPI inflation for 2016-17 is expected to be around 4.5 to 5%. RBI (Reserve Bank of India) is expecting to meet 5% inflation target by March 2017.

              
  
              è       Fiscal Deficit:

According to the India Economic Survey 2016, fiscal deficit is likely to be about 3.9% of GDP during 2016-17. And revenue deficit and primary deficit are to be around 3.0% and 1.6% respectively during the same fiscal.

So, understand these international trade data and financial figures and make out where our economy is going under the current circumstances!
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