NEW DELHI: India’s electronic goods exports experienced a significant increase of 37.31 per cent in July year-on-year, rising to $2.8 billion from $2.04 billion in July 2023, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
This growth underscores the expanding global demand for Indian electronics. For the period from April to July 2024, the total export value of electronic goods reached $11.24 billion.
Additionally, the data reveals that the most substantial year-on-year growth in July 2024 was in the export of meat, dairy, and poultry products, which surged by 56.18 per cent. This highlights a robust performance in India’s agricultural export sector as well.
India’s overall exports, merchandise and services combined, in July were to the tune of $62.42 billion, a 2.81 rise on a yearly basis, Commerce Ministry data showed on Wednesday. In the same month last year, it was $60.71 billion.
Exports of merchandise goods declined from $34.49 billion to $33.98 billion and exports of services rose from $26.22 to $28.43 billion during the month. India’s overall exports, merchandise, and services combined in June were to the tune of $65.47 billion.
During the first four months of 2024-25 (April-July), India’s total exports now stand at around $260 billion. The government has expressed optimism about reaching its full-year target of $800 billion.
The country’s imports too increased year-on-year in July, data showed today. The same was the case in June. The overall imports, both merchandise and services combined, increased from $67.23 billion to $72.03 billion, a rise of about 7.13 per cent, in July.
Coming to trade deficit, meaning the difference between the exports and the imports, it widened from 6.5 per cent to 9.61 per cent in July. In the recently concluded financial year 2023-24, India registered record exports at $778 billion. In 2022-23, the country exported goods and services combined at $776.3 billion. In break up, services exports rose from $325.3 billion to $341.1 billion in 2023-24. Merchandise exports though marginally declined from $451.1 billion to $437.1 billion.
Among various steps the government took was to launch a Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme in varied sectors, including electronic goods, to make Indian manufacturers globally competitive, attract investments, enhance exports, integrate India into the global supply chain and reduce dependency on imports. These seemed to have reaped dividends.
Overall imports declined from $898.0 billion in 2022-23 to $853.8 billion. Both merchandise and services exports declined during the financial year. Overall trade deficit significantly improved from $121.6 billion in 2022-23 to $75.6 billion in 2023-24. (ANI)