INDIA TRADE DEFICIT FALLS
India's trade deficit is
provisionally estimated at 58.34 billion rupees in the first 10
months of fiscal 1986/87 ending March, compared with 70.62
billion in the year ago period, the Commerce Ministry said.
 Exports rose in the latest period to 100.75 billion rupees
from the a year earlier 86.09 billion and imports to 159.09
billion from 156.71 billion in the period, the figures show.
    The trade deficit for all of 1986/87 is provisionally
estimated at around 70 billion rupees from an estimated record
87.47 billion in 1985/86 and actual 53.18 billion in 1984/85,
Commerce Minister P. Shiv Shanker told reporters last month .
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