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India's export marks 20% rise in April

| | May 16, 2017, at 01:17 am
New Delhi, May 15 (IBNS): Indian exports during April 2017have shown growth of 19.77 per cent in dollar terms valued at US$ 24635.09 million as compared to US$ 20568.85 million during April,2016, as per the government data released on Monday.

"In Rupee terms, duringApril 2017 exports were valued at Rs. 158913.79 crore as compared to Rs. 136720.11 crore during April,2016, registering a positive growth of 16.23 per cent," read a government statement.

Non-petroleum and Non Gems & Jewellery exports in April 2017 were valued at US$ 17718.87 million against US$ 15136.41 million in April 2016, an increase of 17.06 %, it said.

The growth in exports is positive for all major economies, USA (4.74%), EU (0.16%),Japan (13.30%) except for China (-1.56%)for February 2017 over the corresponding period of previous year as per latest WTO statistics.

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