As
part of the initiative of the Ministry of Commerce & Industry to provide
easy access to the public on export and import trends of India the Minister of
State for Commerce & Industry (I/C) Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman launched here
today a dashboard on EXIM Analytics. This is a portal developed by the
Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, at the instance of the Ministry.
These simple to use Analytics Dashboards
would facilitate the general public to have an accurate perspective on the
facts around the trade performance of India. This endeavor of the Ministry is
also in tune with the principle of “Government at the doorstep”.
Given
the high priority accorded to Transparency in Governance by the new Government,
the dashboard on export – import will enable small and upcoming businessmen to
foray into global trade based on reliable information directly accessible
through Government sources.
EXIM
Analytics represents data graphically exposing patterns,
trends and correlations that might go undetected in text-based data. The
dashboard gives a graphical collection of exports and imports from India; e.g.,
the Export turnover of the country – how it performs over time? What are the
export destinations? What items are being exported? Which are the ports –
inland, sea or airports from which the exports are taking place?
The
user friendly Dashboard developed by the Ministry enables the user to interactively
query the information to investigate facts at more detailed level; e.g.
starting from the first insight of overall exports in a fiscal year, user can
proceed to query what are the top commodities being exported to a particular
market, say, USA and then choose a specific commodity, look at its trend, from
which ports it is being exported and so on.
The
EXIM Analytics dashboard launched today enables analysis of trade information
of India relating to: Export Overview: provides analysis of data by time
period, export destinations and ports of export. Import Overview: provides
analysis of data by time period, countries of Import and ports of import. Balance
of Trade: The Balance of Trade (BOT) can be analysed over time periods for
different Regions, Countries and Ports.
The
data for analysis is presented as a month’s aggregate at its lowest
granularity, namely, at the level of country, commodity, port etc. Presently Monthly
data from April 2014 till January 2016 has been provided. Progressively additional
dashboards and data for older period will be added.
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