{"id":113379,"date":"2021-05-21T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=113379"},"modified":"2021-05-21T13:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:05:47","slug":"indias-foreign-trade-april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/indias-foreign-trade-april-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIA\u2019S FOREIGN TRADE: April 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Ministry of Commerce &amp; Industry has recently released India\u2019s foreign trade data of April 2021. Accordingly, which of the following fact is correct ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>India&#8217;s exports jump to $30.63 bn in April<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Non-petroleum and Non-Gems and Jewellery exports in April 2021 were USD 23.62 Billion<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Oil imports in April 2021 were USD 10.87 Billion<\/strong><br>(a) Only 1.<br>(b) Only 2.<br>(c) Only3.<br>(d) All above<br><strong>Ans.(d)<br>Related facts<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 14 May 2021 Ministry of Commerce &amp; Industry released India\u2019s foreign trade data of April 2021.<\/li><li><strong>Key points<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Exports<\/strong><\/li><li>Exports in April 2021 were USD 30.63 Billion, as compared to USD 10.36 Billion in April 2020, exhibiting a positive growth of 195.72 per cent.<\/li><li>As compared to April 2019, exports in April 2021 exhibited a positive growth of 17.62 per cent in Dollar terms and 26.17 per cent in Rupee terms.<\/li><li>The commodities\/commodity groups which have recorded positive growth during April 2021 vis-\u00e0-vis April 2020 are Gems &amp; jewellery (9271.21%), Jute mfg. including floor covering (1684.62%), Carpet (1352.68%), Handicrafts excl. handmade carpet (1275.46%), Leather &amp; leather products (1201.44%), RMG of all textiles (927.08%), Cotton yarn\/fabs.\/made-ups, handloom products etc. (618.26%), Man-made yarn\/fabs.\/made-ups etc. (587.01%), Other cereals (451.39%), Ceramic products &amp; glassware (444.45%), Electronic goods (372.62%), Oil meals (279.49%), Cashew (260.48%), Mica, Coal &amp; other ores, minerals including processed minerals (241.21%), Engineering goods (238.27%), Petroleum products (191.53%), Tobacco (187.4%), Cereal preparations &amp; miscellaneous processed items (174.61%), Iron ore (172.16%), Oil seeds (169.04%), Meat, dairy &amp; poultry products (148.81%), Tea (146.31%), Marine products (107.94%), Spices (97.56%), Coffee (75.02%), Organic &amp; inorganic chemicals (68.54%), Rice (61.64%), Plastic &amp; Linoleum (51.89%), Fruits &amp; vegetables (25.4%) and Drugs &amp; pharmaceuticals (23.43%).<\/li><li>Non-petroleum and Non-Gems and Jewellery exports in April 2021 were USD 23.62 Billion, as compared to USD 9.08 Billion in April 2020, registering a positive growth of 160.24 per cent.<\/li><li><strong>Imports<\/strong><\/li><li>Imports in April 2021 were USD 45.72 Billion (Rs.3,40,505.06 Crore), which is an increase of 167.05 per cent in Dollar terms and 160.87 per cent in Rupee terms over imports of USD 17.12 Billion (Rs 1,30,525.08 Crore) in April 2020.<\/li><li>Oil imports in April 2021 were USD 10.87 Billion (Rs. 80,968.76 Crore), which was 133.24 percent higher in Dollar terms (127.84 percent higher in Rupee terms), compared to USD 4.66 Billion (Rs. 35,537.22 Crore) in April 2020. As compared to April 2019, oil imports in April 2021 were 5.98 percent lower in Dollar terms and 0.85per cent higher in rupee terms.<\/li><li>In this connection it is mentioned that the global Brent price ($\/bbl) has increased by 177.51% in April 2021 vis-\u00e0-vis April 2020 as per data available from World Bank.<\/li><li>Non-oil imports in April 2021 were estimated at USD 34.85 Billion (Rs. 2,59,536.30 Crore) which was 179.70 percent higher in Dollar terms (173.23 percent higher in Rupee terms), compared to USD 12.46 Billion (Rs. 94,987.86 Crore) in April 2020.<\/li><li>Non-Oil and Non-Gold imports were USD 28.61 Billion in April 2021, recording a positive growth of 129.68 per cent, as compared to Non-Oil and Non-Gold imports of USD 12.46Billion in April 2020.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1718644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1718644<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Ministry of Commerce &amp; Industry has recently released India\u2019s foreign trade data of April 2021. Accordingly, which of the following fact is correct ? India&#8217;s exports jump to $30.63 bn in April Non-petroleum and Non-Gems and Jewellery exports in April 2021 were USD 23.62 Billion Oil imports in April 2021 were USD 10.87 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":113381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-113379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113382,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113379\/revisions\/113382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}