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 April 2012 were released on June 15, 2012.

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

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 (April-June 2011, July-September 2011, October-December 2011 and January-March 2012) are available in the press release on 'Developments in India's Balance of Payments during January-March 2012' placed on RBI website on June 29, 2012.

J. D. Desai
Assistant Manager

Press Release : 2012-2013/68