The Reserve Bank releases provisional aggregate monthly data on India's international trade in services with a lag of 45 days. Accordingly, the data for the month of October 2012 were released on December 14, 2012.

The exports and imports of services during the month of November 2012 are given in the following .

Table: International Trade in Services

(US$ Million)

Month

Receipts (Exports)

Payments (Imports)

October 2012

12,348

6,703

November 2012

12,029

6,618

Note: Data are provisional.

Monthly data on services are provisional and would undergo revision when the Balance of Payments (BoP) data are released on a quarterly basis. Revised data on services receipts and payments on quarterly basis (July-September 2012 and Partially Revised data for the First Quarter (April-June 2012) are available in the press release on 'Developments in India's Balance of Payments during the Second Quarter (July-September 2012) and Partially Revised data for the First Quarter (April-June 2012) of 2012-13' placed on RBI website on December 31, 2012.

J. D. Desai
Assistant Manager

Press Release : 2012-2013/1191



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