The Reserve Bank of India's extraordinary measures to support exporters, including a moratorium for the first time since Covid on loan repayments, is seen as a pre-emptive move to provide breathing space to the sector that has to find new markets and adjust to new trade realities. Though there is no visible stress in the sector currently, the central bank's measures are timely because they give a much-needed cushion both to banks and customers amid continuing global trade disruptions triggered by US tariffs, said bankers.