INDIA TRADE DEFICIT FALLS
  India's trade deficit is
  provisionally estimated at 58.34 billion rupees in the first 10
  months of fiscal 1986/87 ending March, compared with 70.62
  billion in the year ago period, the Commerce Ministry said.
   Exports rose in the latest period to 100.75 billion rupees
  from the a year earlier 86.09 billion and imports to 159.09
  billion from 156.71 billion in the period, the figures show.
      The trade deficit for all of 1986/87 is provisionally
  estimated at around 70 billion rupees from an estimated record
  87.47 billion in 1985/86 and actual 53.18 billion in 1984/85,
  Commerce Minister P. Shiv Shanker told reporters last month .
  

