India’s Record Gold Import Likely Due to Calculation Error
- Officials probably double-counted gold stored in warehouses
- Confusion may have been triggered by change of counting system
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A surge in gold imports that widened India’s trade deficit to a record last month and pushed the rupee to an all-time low was due to an error in calculation, according to people with knowledge of the matter.