India achieved highest ever exports in December 2021,Piyush Goyal

Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Monday announced that India has achieved the highest ever exports of $37 billion in December 2021, a 37% jump from December 2020. Goyal told a media briefing India is well on its way to achieving an export target of $400 billion. He said the top 10 major commodity groups constituting 80% of exports have grown by 41% over last December. As per the government figures, India’s merchandise export in December 2021 stood at $37.29 billion, the highest ever monthly achievement, with an increase of 37.0% over $27.22 billion in December 2020. The non-petroleum exports in December 2021 was of $31.67 billion, registering a positive growth of 27.31% over non-petroleum exports of $24.88 billion in December 2020.

With $300 billion in the first 9 months of 2021-22 we are on track to achieve our target,” Goyal said. He said the imports from China during the UPA government grew by 1,160% between 2003-04 and 2013-14 while it was brought down "drastically to 8% between 2014-15 and 2020-21" under the BJP government. Goyal said that India's Missions abroad have reacted very well to PM Modi's clarion call for 'Local Goes Global: Make In India For the World'.