The Reserve Bank releases provisional aggregate monthly data on India’s international trade in services with a lag of around 45 days. Accordingly, the data for the month of April 2013 were released on June 14, 2013.

The exports and imports of services during the month of May 2013 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 (January-March 2013) and Partially Revised data for the First Quarter (April-June 2012), Second Quarter (July-September 2012) and Third Quarter (October-December 2012) are available in the press release on 'Developments in India’s Balance of Payments during the Fourth Quarter (January-March 2013) ' placed on RBI website on June 27, 2013.

Ajit Prasad
Assistant General Manager

Press Release : 2013-2014/114