"India has a trade deficit with 48 countries both during last three years as well as during 2012-13 (April-September).
"Out of these the names of top 10 countries are China, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Nigeria, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Korea and Qatar," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
He said that the combined share of these 10 countries to the total exports during April-September period of this fiscal is 13.5 per cent.
During the first six months of the financial year, the country's exports dipped by 6.79 per cent to $143.6 billion from $154.1 billion in the same period last year.
India had the highest trade deficit of about $40 billion with China in 2011-12.
Declining exports and increasing imports have pushed the country's trade gap to a record high of $21
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