{"id":660587,"date":"2026-05-16T11:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660587"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:28:15","slug":"oil-drives-april-exports-to-highest-in-4-years-imports-up-10-trade-deficit-at-3-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-drives-april-exports-to-highest-in-4-years-imports-up-10-trade-deficit-at-3-month-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil drives April exports to highest in 4 years; imports up 10%, trade deficit at 3-month high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Higher petroleum prices propelled India\u2019s exports to $43.6 billion, the highest monthly level in over four years, showing a 13.8% growth, which is fastest in five months. Imports rose at a more moderate pace of 9.9% to $71.9 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of 28.3 billion, a three-month high.<\/p>\n<p>Oil product exports jumped 34.7% to $9.6 billion in April, next only to engineering ($10.3 billion). Diesel, aviation fuel and petrol exports had shrunk nearly 15% to under $54 billion last year as global prices remained muted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Higher petroleum prices propelled India\u2019s exports to $43.6 billion, the highest monthly level in over four years, showing a 13.8% growth, which is fastest in five months. Imports rose at a more moderate pace of 9.9% to $71.9 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of 28.3 billion, a three-month high. Oil product exports jumped 34.7% to $9.6 billion in April, next only to engineering ($10.3 billion). Diesel, aviation fuel and petrol exports had shrunk nearly 15% to under $54 billion last year as global prices remained muted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660590,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660587\/revisions\/660590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}