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India’s Easing of Gold Import Rules Will Not Increase Deficit

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The Reserve Bank’s move to ease gold import norms is unlikely to exert upward pressure on the current account deficit, industry body Assocham today said.

The RBI had earlier eased gold import norms by allowing select trading houses, in addition to already permitted banks, to procure the precious metal to boost exports.

“Assuming a monthly average gold import of 40 tonnes for first quarter of 2014-15 and 80 tonnes for the remaining three quarters, total imports for the current fiscal will tantamount to 840 tonnes vis-a-vis 586 tonnes in 2013-14.

“While the 80-20 rule would still put some downside pressure on our estimate, we believe the impact would be offset by the likely upside risk that phased normaliaation of custom duty could bring-in,” Assocham President Rana Kapoor said.

via India Times

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