India Merchandise Trade Preliminary data for the month of August 2021

India’s merchandise imports in August 2021 was USD 47.01 billion, an increase of 51.47% over USD 31.03 billion in August 2020 and an increase of 17.95% over USD 39.85 billion in August 2019.

India’s merchandise imports in April-August 2021 was USD 219.54 billion, an increase of 81.75%  over USD 120.79 billion in April-August 2020 and a marginal increase of 4.35% over USD 210.39 billion in April-August 2019.

The trade deficit in August 2021 was USD 13.87 billion in compared to the trade deficit of USD 8.2 billion in August 2020, while it is USD 55.9 billion during April-August 2021 as compared to USD 22.7 billion during the same period of the previous year.

Source- https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1751487