{"id":24520,"date":"2026-06-15T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=24520"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:26:02","slug":"indias-exports-rise-18-in-may-trade-deficit-at-28-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=24520","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s exports rise 18% in May; trade deficit at $28.2 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131741181,imgsize-978863,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"India's exports rise 18% in May; trade deficit at $28.2 billion\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>India&#8217;s merchandise exports grew 18% year-on-year to $45.2 billion in May, while imports rose 20.62% to $73.41 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of $28.21 billion, according to commerce ministry data, reported PTI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The strong performance also lifted cumulative merchandise exports during April-May 2026-27 to $88.91 billion, up 16.09% from the corresponding period last year.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said exports to West Asia remained largely stable despite geopolitical developments in the region.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>India&#8217;s exports to Middle East stood at $5.30 billion in May compared with $5.38 billion in May 2025, he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Gold imports during the first two months of the current fiscal surged 60% to $9.04 billion, according to the data.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Commenting on the outlook, Agrawal said current trends point to a positive year for India&#8217;s exports.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>&#8220;Going by the trend, this year will be good for exports,&#8221; he added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/indias-exports-rise-18-in-may-trade-deficit-at-28-2-billion\/articleshow\/131740960.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s merchandise exports grew 18% year-on-year to $45.2 billion in May, while imports rose 20.62% to $73.41 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of $28.21 billion, according to commerce ministry data, reported PTI.The strong performance also lifted cumulative merchandise exports during April-May 2026-27 to $88.91 billion, up 16.09% from the corresponding period last year.Commerce Secretary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}