August Trade Deficit

Goods exports rose 26 per cent year-on-year to $43.81 billion in August, outpacing the 14 per cent rise in imports to $70.67 billion

The wholesale price-based inflation eased to 11-month low of 12.41 per cent in August, on softening in prices of manufactured and fuel products, even as food items remained expensive.

Oil, engineering goods top contributors, but trade deficit widens to $11.64 bn