The Reserve Bank is releasing provisional aggregate monthly data on India's international trade in services with a lag of 45 days. Accordingly, the data for the month of July 2011 were released on September 15, 2011.

The exports and imports of services during the month of August 2011 are given in the following Table.

As mentioned in the previous press release, monthly services data are provisional and may undergo revision when the Balance of Payments (BoP) data are released on a quarterly basis. Accordingly, revised data on services receipts and payments on quarterly basis (April-June 2011) are now available in the press release on 'Developments in India's Balance of Payments during the First Quarter (April-June) of 2011-12' placed on RBI website on September 30, 2011.

Ajit Prasad
Assistant General Manager

Press Release : 2011-2012/588