An economic analysis India's imports during post reform period

The imports of food capital goods the raw materials of industry and certain essential consumer goods and no exchange restriction were placed upon their imports consumer goods, which were not absolutely essential, while others in the context of the economy of India were regarded as totally unessential and luxury imports were altogether prohibited. In this study for the analysis is 10 years from 2000 to 2010. The reason for choosing this time period because it covers post reform periods. The study used only secondary data for analytical purpose and the data are not originally collected rather obtained from published sources. The data were collected from various sources, such as, various issues of Economic Survey, Foreign Trade Review, RBI Report on currency, finance and RBI Bulletin. Various statistical and Econometric tools have been used for analyzing the data to study the trends and pattern of imports and impact of new economic policy on imports. Some of the important tools are linear trend analysis, semi log model.