India | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2016 - 2018

Exports structure from India in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 15% (48 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 12.1% (39 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 6.33% (20 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 5.65% (18.2 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• 5.51% (17.7 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 4.43% (14.3 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
• 3.67% (11.8 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 3.08% (9.94 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 2.5% (8.09 billion US$): 52 - Cotton
• 2.5% (8.06 billion US$): 62 - Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted

What did India export in 2018?

India's Top Exports in 2018:

• 14.5% ($47 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 7.93% ($25 billion): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set
• 3.96% ($12.7 billion): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
• 3.84% ($12.4 billion): 7113 - Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal
• 2.27% ($7.34 billion): 1006 - Rice
• 2.22% ($7.17 billion): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
• 1.59% ($5.12 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
• 1.38% ($4.48 billion): 0306 - Crustaceans; in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked, cooked or not before or during smoking; in shell, steamed or boiled, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine
• 1.33% ($4.31 billion): 2902 - Cyclic hydrocarbons
• 1.19% ($3.83 billion): 5205 - Cotton yarn (other than sewing thread), containing 85 % or more by weight of cotton, not put up for retail sale

Imports structure to India in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

• 33% (168 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 12.7% (64 billion US$): 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin
• 10.3% (52 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
• 8.51% (43 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
• 4.44% (22 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
• 2.99% (15.1 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
• 2.36% (12 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
• 1.99% (10.1 billion US$): 15 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• 1.86% (9.46 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
• 1.43% (7.26 billion US$): 28 - Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes

What did India import in 2018?

India's Top Imports in 2018:

• 22% ($114 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
• 6.25% ($31 billion): 7108 - Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form
• 5.23% ($26 billion): 7102 - Diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set
• 4.84% ($24 billion): 2701 - Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal
• 3.74% ($19 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
• 3.68% ($18.7 billion): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones
• 1.42% ($7.25 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies
• 1.24% ($6.3 billion): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
• 1.11% ($5.67 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
• 1.07% ($5.47 billion): 1511 - Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified