India and China don’t agree on how much they trade with each other, and the gap is widening

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At the time, in 2022, ThePrint’s analysis found that the disparity between the Chinese and Indian government data on the total trade between the two countries was roughly $15 billion. New Delhi: In May 2022, China disputed India’s claim that the US had surpassed Beijing as New Delhi’s largest trading partner in FY22. The Chinese foreign ministry claimed that the bilateral goods trade with India was far higher than figures released by India’s commerce ministry. While the Chinese foreign ministry said the disparity was “a result of different statistical measurement scales”, a senior commerce ministry official told ThePrint at that...