Answer the question based on the following information
Consider the information provided in the figure below relating to India’s foreign trade in $1997-98$ and the first eight months of $1998-99.$ Total trade with a region is defined as the sum of exports and imports from that region. Trade deficit is defined as the excess of imports over exports. Trade deficit may be negative.
- USA
- Germany
- Other EU
- UK
- Japan
- Other East European countries
- OPEC
- Asia
- Other LDCs
- Others
- Russia
In $1997-98,$ the trade deficit with respect to India, billion US dollars, for the region with the highest trade deficit with respect to India, is approximately equal to
- $6.0$
- $3.0$
- $4.5$
- $7.5$