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Indian Exports Surge By 80 Per Cent To $7.04 Billion In The First Week of May

Swarajya StaffMay 10, 2021, 12:33 PM | Updated 12:32 PM IST
Rise in engineering export goods. (GettyImages)

Rise in engineering export goods. (GettyImages)


In positive news for the Indian economy, despite the surge in COVID-19 cases and various States imposing lockdowns and movement restrictions, India’s exports during the first week of May (1-7 May) grew by a whopping 80 per cent year-on-year $7.04 billion, reports Economic Times.

Compared to it, the exports during the same period last year stood at $3.91 billion. Meanwhile, during the same period of 2019, the exports stood at $6.48 billion.


It should also be noted that SK Saraf, who is the president of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) said that the export growth is encouraging and that the order books of the nation’s exporters are healthy.

The preliminary data from the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry also showed that imports during this period also grew by 80.7 per cent to $8.86 billion. Compared to this, the imports stood at $4.91 billion last year, and at much higher $10.39 billion in 2019.

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