{"id":23468,"date":"2020-06-18T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23468"},"modified":"2020-06-18T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T06:55:09","slug":"indias-trade-deficit-narrows-to-3-15-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indias-trade-deficit-narrows-to-3-15-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Trade deficit narrows to $3.15 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

India’s trade deficit narrowed to $3.15 billion from $15.36 billion a year ago. It is due to mainly on account of drop in shipments by key sectors such as petroleum, textiles, engineering, gems and jewellery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key-Points:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Exports in the same month stood at $19.05 billion, while imports were seen at $22.2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A trade deficit occurs when a country’s imports exceed its exports during a given time period. It is also referred to as a negative balance of trade (BOT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balances are calculated for several categories of international transactions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trade deficits can be shorter or longer term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Implications of a trade deficit depend on impacts on production, jobs, national security and how the deficits are financed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India’s trade deficit narrowed to $3.15 billion from $15.36 billion a year ago. It is due to mainly on account of drop in shipments by key sectors such as petroleum, textiles, engineering, gems and jewellery. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points: Exports in the same month stood at $19.05 billion, while imports were seen at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":23469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23470,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468\/revisions\/23470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}