Oil accounts for 30% of India's import bill, but the country produces only 25% of its domestic requirement.
Germans had to foot a higher import bill, the statistics office said, no doubt because of higher oil prices.
Iran, the second-biggest supplier of crude to India after Saudi Arabia, accounts for about 14% of the country's oil-import bill.
India consumes a quarter of the global gold demand of 4, 000 tonnes, and spends about 12% of its import bill on the metal.
According to the report, a surge in the petroleum import bill and a decrease in the surplus on income accounted for the deficit's increase.
The next big contributor to India's swelling import bill is gold.
The report says that if people ate as much fruit and vegetables as the government wanted, this would merely lead to a rise in the import bill.
The country's huge demand for gold is one of the primary reasons for its large import bill, which has led to a widening of the current account deficit.
The Philippines has also seen its import bill rise, as has Indonesia, which became a net importer of oil in 2003, despite being the region's only member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The bill is one of several efforts to make it legal to import cheap, brand-name medications from Canada.
Tim Murphy, a Pennsylvania congressman, is championing a bill that would give Congress power to review presidential decisions on whether or not to increase import duties in the face of sudden dislocations.
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