{"id":1030296,"date":"2026-08-21T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030296"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:55:21","slug":"indias-net-services-exports-fall-to-16-95-bn-is-ai-starting-to-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/21\/indias-net-services-exports-fall-to-16-95-bn-is-ai-starting-to-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s net services exports fall to $16.95 bn: Is AI starting to bite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the last decade, the answer to any awkward question about India\u2019s trade numbers was the same: look at services. Merchandise imports could balloon, oil could spike, gold could surge and the country\u2019s software and business-services exports would quietly absorb the shock. That reflex is now being tested. <\/p>\n<p>Net services exports fell to $16.95 billion in July 2026, down 5% month-on-month and up just 3% from a year earlier, according to a trade balance note published by Emkay Global. Gross services exports of $36 billion rose 6% year-on-year, while services imports at $19 billion were up 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the last decade, the answer to any awkward question about India\u2019s trade numbers was the same: look at services. Merchandise imports could balloon, oil could spike, gold could surge and the country\u2019s software and business-services exports would quietly absorb the shock. That reflex is now being tested. Net services exports fell to $16.95 billion in July 2026, down 5% month-on-month and up just 3% from a year earlier, according to a trade balance note published by Emkay Global. Gross services exports of $36 billion rose 6% year-on-year, while services imports at $19 billion were up 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030324,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030296\/revisions\/1030324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}