India | Imports and Exports | World | Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023
The value of exports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" from India totalled $ 5.05 billion in 2023. Sales of commodity group 90 from India went up by 9.86% compared to 2022: exports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" went up by $ 453 million (cumulative exports of commodity group 90 from India amounted $4.59 billion in 2022)
Exports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" amounted to 1.17% of total exports from India (cumulative merchandise exports from India totalled $ 431 billion in 2023). The share of commodity group 90 in total exports from India increased by 0.155 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 1.01% in 2022 and cumulative exports from India were equal to $ 452 billion).
Where does India export Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof?
Top export destinations of "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" from India in 2023:
- USA with a share of 19.2% (974 million US$)
- Germany with a share of 6.08% (307 million US$)
- France with a share of 5.64% (285 million US$)
- Singapore with a share of 5.32% (268 million US$)
- United Arab Emirates with a share of 5.19% (262 million US$)
- China with a share of 4.48% (226 million US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 4.13% (209 million US$)
- Netherlands with a share of 2.65% (134 million US$)
- Oman with a share of 2.54% (128 million US$)
- Russia with a share of 2.48% (125 million US$)
Exports structure of 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof - from India in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 27% (1.38 billion US$): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
- 13.5% (684 million US$): 9001 - Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading 85.44; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically worked
- 7.41% (374 million US$): 9032 - Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
- 7.2% (364 million US$): 9021 - Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability.
- 6.63% (335 million US$): 9022 - X-ray, alpha, beta, gamma radiation apparatus; x-ray tubes, x-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like
- 5.75% (290 million US$): 9031 - Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors
- 5.49% (277 million US$): 9026 - Instruments, apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure of liquids, gases (e.g. flow meters, heat meters etc), not instruments and apparatus of heading no. 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032
- 4.47% (225 million US$): 9027 - Instruments and apparatus; for physical or chemical analysis (e.g. polarimeters, spectrometers), for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, etc, for measuring quantities of heat, sound or light
- 4.16% (210 million US$): 9015 - Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders
- 3.96% (200 million US$): 9030 - Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations.
The value of imports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" to India totalled $ 12.6 billion in 2023. Sales of commodity group 90 to India went up by 11.3% compared to 2022: imports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" went up by $ 1.28 billion (the value of imports of commodity group 90 to India was equal to $11.3 billion in 2022)
Imports of commodity group 90 "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof" accounted for 1.87% of total import flow to India (in 2023, total imports to India amounted to $ 672 billion). The share of commodity group 90 in total imports to India increased by 0.33 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 1.54% in 2022 and cumulative imports to India were equal to $ 732 billion).
Where does India import Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof from?
Top trading partners (import of "Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof") of India in 2023:
- China with a share of 21% (2.68 billion US$)
- USA with a share of 18.2% (2.3 billion US$)
- Germany with a share of 12.2% (1.55 billion US$)
- Japan with a share of 8.25% (1.04 billion US$)
- Korea with a share of 4.25% (536 million US$)
- Singapore with a share of 4.05% (511 million US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 3.4% (429 million US$)
- Malaysia with a share of 2.68% (338 million US$)
- Switzerland with a share of 2.57% (324 million US$)
- Ireland with a share of 2.33% (295 million US$)
Imports structure of 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof - to India in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 19.9% (2.51 billion US$): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments
- 14.9% (1.88 billion US$): 9027 - Instruments and apparatus; for physical or chemical analysis (e.g. polarimeters, spectrometers), for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, etc, for measuring quantities of heat, sound or light
- 11.9% (1.5 billion US$): 9031 - Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors
- 8.91% (1.12 billion US$): 9032 - Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
- 7.28% (919 million US$): 9022 - X-ray, alpha, beta, gamma radiation apparatus; x-ray tubes, x-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like
- 7.14% (901 million US$): 9021 - Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability.
- 6.35% (802 million US$): 9030 - Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations.
- 4.25% (536 million US$): 9026 - Instruments, apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure of liquids, gases (e.g. flow meters, heat meters etc), not instruments and apparatus of heading no. 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032
- 3.07% (388 million US$): 9001 - Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading 85.44; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically worked
- 2.44% (308 million US$): 9015 - Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders
