Mumbai, Sept. 30 -- India's services exports rose 13.7 per cent year-on-year in August 2026 to USD 35.47 billion, while services imports grew at a faster pace of 21.4 per cent to USD 18.93 billion, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday.

The faster growth in imports comes even as India continued to maintain a sizeable surplus in services trade. Based on the RBI figures, the services trade surplus stood at about USD 16.54 billion in August, compared with USD 17.65 billion in July.

On a month-on-month basis, services exports declined from USD 38.25 billion in July, while imports fell from USD 20.61 billion. In July, exports and imports had grown 13.4 per cent and 19.1 per cent, respectively, from a year...