Trade Deficit
What is Trade deficit??
Trade
deficit is rise of imports against exports. If a country imports more than
export then we call it as trade deficit. Every county wants to reduce trade
deficit.
Trade
deficit is not a bad thing either it only mean that countries that export more than
imports which will leads to more dollars with country which exports more to
importer . With increased dollars there is always fear they may sell dollars at
large leads to currency downfall.
India Trade Deficit for Month of February 2014
Month:-
Today
i.e. on 11th Feb 2013 India trade deficit fall in February Month Falls to USD 8.3
billion compared to USD 14.2 billion in year ago period this is steepest ever
fall since September 2013
This
means that imports get fallen data shows that Imports fall by 17 % YoY.
The trade deficit was USD 9.92 billion in January month compared
with USD 10.14 billion in December.
Total imports during February month
stands at USD 33.81 billion down 17.09 % from February 2013.
But there is concerns also as total
exports in February 2014 Month fell 3.67% to USD 25.68 billion from USD 26.66
billion during February 2013.
But if see in terms of Rs export increased
11.47% as Rs get devalued a lot in 1 year i.e. by 16.64 %.
Indian government may miss Total
export target of USD 325 billion marginally in Current financial year.
Total exports for 11 months is USD
282.7 billion i.e. up by 4.8% over the corresponding period last year.
If we see main commodities which
contain most part of imports then we see that Oil imports during February 2014
were at USD 13.7 billion i.e. down by 3.1% from the last year in Previous year
February Month Oil Imports Stood at USD 14.13 Billion.
Non-oil imports declined
by 24.5 % from previous years Feb Month , In Feb 2014 Month Non Oil Imports
stands at USD 20.12 billion against USD
26.65 billion last year February Month.