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India to weigh gold policy impact after 38% spurt in November imports

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Suvashree Choudhury and Meenakshi Sharma
Reuters
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

India will weigh the impact of last month's easing of gold import rules after inbound shipments jumped 38 percent in November to push its trade deficit to an 18-month high, Trade Secretary Rajeev Kher said today.

In a surprise move, the world's second-biggest gold consumer scrapped a rule for traders to export 20 percent of all gold imports, belying expectations for tighter curbs instead.

After the change, gold imports surged to 151.58 tonnes in November, an increase of 38 percent from 109.55 tonnes a month earlier, trade ministry data showed today. ...

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