#Major Exporters in India

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India's Export Landscape: Key Insights and Major Exporters

India has firmly established itself as a prominent player in the global export market, thanks to its diverse range of products and robust industrial base. This article explores the key highlights of India's export performance, major exporters, and top export companies, shedding light on the factors that drive the country's trade success.

Key Highlights of India's Export Performance

In October 2023, India saw a notable increase in its total exports, reaching USD 62.26 billion, a 9.43% rise from USD 56.90 billion in October 2022. This growth underscores the resilience and expansion of India's export sector amid global economic uncertainties. The fiscal year 2023–2024 marked a record total export value of USD 778.2 billion, with a slight increase of 0.04% from the previous year.

However, while the overall export value has grown, there was a 3% decrease in the export of goods, which fell to USD 437.1 billion. Conversely, exports of services saw a significant rise to USD 341.1 billion, highlighting a shift towards service-based exports.

Exports by Major Products:

Leather and Its Products

Petroleum Products

Gems and Jewelry

Automobiles, Equipment Parts, and Electronic Goods

Pharmaceutical Products

Organic and Inorganic Chemicals

Dairy Products

Handloom and Cotton Yarns

Top Exporting Countries:

China - USD 3,380 billion

United States - USD 2,019 billion

Germany - USD 1,688 billion

Netherlands - USD 934 billion

Japan - USD 798 billion

Italy - USD 717 billion

France - USD 676 billion

South Korea - USD 648 billion

Mexico - USD 593 billion

Canada - USD 569 billion

Major Exporters in India

India's export sector is characterized by a few key players who dominate various industries. Here’s a closer look at some of the major exporters:

1. Reliance Industries

Reliance Industries is the largest exporter in India, contributing to 15% of the country's total exports. The company excels in refining and petrochemicals, exporting petroleum products such as chemicals, polymers, and refined fuels. Its primary markets include Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

2. Tata Steel

Tata Steel stands out for its extensive steel production capacity, with an annual output of 35 million metric tons. The company's operations span from mining to manufacturing and marketing finished products. Tata Steel exports its products to a diverse range of markets, including the United States, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Jordan, and Qatar.

3. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries

Sun Pharma is a global leader in pharmaceutical exports, specializing in APIs, generic drugs, and specialty medications. The company’s research-driven approach has expanded its reach to markets such as the USA, Belarus, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.

4. Rajesh Exports Limited

Rajesh Exports is unique in its complete integration across the gold value chain, from retail branding to mining. Processing about 35% of the world’s gold, the company exports gold and jewelry to over 60 countries, including the USA, UK, Singapore, and UAE.

5. Tata Motors

Tata Motors is a leading automaker known for its diverse range of vehicles, including electric, commercial, and passenger vehicles. The company’s export markets include Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Vietnam.

6. Vardhaman Textiles

As the largest vertically integrated textile manufacturer in India, Vardhaman Textiles exports a significant portion of its yarn production. Its major markets are South Asia, Europe, Africa, Japan, and the United States.

7. International Lace Trade Center

The ILTC facilitates the export of handmade lace products, showcasing Indian handicrafts to the global market. The center supports artisans and exporters by providing various facilities for exhibitions and craft bazaars.

8. Bajaj International Private Limited

Bajaj International Pvt. Ltd., part of the Bajaj Group, exports a range of electronic products, including irons, gas stoves, ceiling fans, and room heaters.

9. Arvind Mills

Arvind Mills is renowned for its textiles and denim, including brands like Flying Machine and licensed international labels. The company operates retail chains such as Megamart, Unlimited, and Arvind Store.

10. Kiran Gems Private Limited

Kiran Gems is the world’s largest producer of natural diamonds, known for its advanced manufacturing systems and broad product variety. The company exports diamonds globally, setting industry standards in quality and precision.

Conclusion

India's export sector demonstrates impressive growth and diversity, driven by a range of industries and key players. From refined petroleum and high-quality textiles to pharmaceuticals and automobiles, India's global trade footprint continues to expand. The country’s top exporters play a crucial role in shaping its economic landscape, leveraging technological advancements and market diversification to maintain their competitive edge.

For businesses and individuals interested in exploring India's export opportunities, platforms like ExportImportData.in offer comprehensive insights and data to facilitate informed decision-making.

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Explore the major import and export ports in India and their vital role in the nation's economy. Learn about India's biggest export and import seaports, including Mumbai, Mundra, Visakhapatnam, and more. Discover key facts about India's maritime trade and how these ports contribute to international commerce.

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“Prior to October 7th, between 170-200,000 Palestinians worked in Israel (roughly 75% with work permits—with around 90% of these permits going to Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank). After October 7th, nearly all Palestinian workers were fired, their work permits revoked, and their range of movement, already limited, restricted even further. The economic damage has been immense particularly in construction and agriculture, where the majority of Palestinians had been employed (it is an aspect of Zionist cruelty that Palestinians—a highly educated people—should be confined to low-wage manual labor employment in two of the primary economic sectors which have been used to advance their dispossession). To provide the starkest example: the construction industry, which accounts for 6-7% of Israeli GDP was, as of December 2023, operating at only 30% of its pre-October capacity, and fully half of all building projects were on hold.

Although business interests were able to pressure the government to allow a paltry 8–10,000 Palestinians back to work in December, the short- and long-term solutions to the problem of Israeli dependence on Palestinian labor (and, indeed, for the Zionist it has always been a problem) appears to be the increasing importation of foreign workers from Asia and Eastern Europe, particularly Thailand and India. It should be noted that Israel has used debt—the result of exorbitant “placement fees” charged by recruiters in workers’ home countries—to trap many foreign workers in hyper-exploitative working conditions enforced by geographic isolation. This is the paradigmatic form of modern slavery. Even if cheap imported labor were to get the construction industry back on track, the war has also resulted in the downgrading of Israel’s credit rating, a sharp decline in imports and exports, the almost complete pause of its tourism industry, a snowballing cancelation of arms deals the world over and, in the case of Turkey, trade relations as well, yielding an almost 20% contraction of its annualized GDP.

With these numbers, it could be said that Israel’s present genocide against the Palestinians harms both its short-term and long-term economic interests, sacrificed for the drive to extermination. But the enforced economic obsolescence of the Palestinians must be understood as integral to the drive for their extermination. Employing the brute force of siege, Israel has succeeded in cutting many Palestinians off from much of the global economy—now, entirely in the case of Gaza, and increasingly so in the case of the West Bank. Even those who are able to run businesses with international clientele face delays or de facto bans from cash-transfer sites like PayPal, and imports, exports, and access to certain goods are all controlled and restricted by Israel. These restrictions limit access to raw materials, affecting the types of industry Palestine is capable of sustaining, and limiting prospects for economic development.

Palestinians' limited access to the global economy in turn nurtures a dependency on Israeli goods and employment. But this dependency cuts both ways—Israel has grown dependent on Palestinian labor, which renders Palestinians necessary to the functioning of the Israeli economy and also creates barriers against their total social exclusion (not only in the sense that this labor requires social interaction with the Israeli populace). As Bataille writes in The Psychological Structure of Fascism, “money serves to measure all work and makes man a function of measurable products. According to the judgment of homogenous society, each man is worth what he produces.” In capitalist society, productivity becomes the prerequisite to admittance to social life. To totalize race-based social exclusion, then, the target population must be rendered economically obsolete. “As early as 1895,” Fayez Sayegh notes, “Herzl was busy devising a plan to ‘spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment.’”

Nazi Germany understood this as well: the 1938 “Regulation for the Elimination of the Jews from the Economic Life of Germany” completed the work begun three years prior by the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped Jews and other groups of their citizenship and enshrined racial classification and separation into law. “The Jewish middleman,” Adorno and Horkheimer write, “fully becomes the image of the devil only when economically he has ceased to exist.” In apartheid society, in which the target population is seen as subhuman, or at least undeserving of rights or consideration, the wage remains one of the last means of verifying their humanity: beasts may be productive, but they do not earn a wage. The attempted elimination of Palestinian labor from the Israeli economy marks one of the final steps on the way to their full dehumanization in the Zionists’ eyes, one that prepared the way for the present mass extermination.

Zionism is not, then, a race-based system of economic exploitation at its core, though it does benefit from such exploitation: it is, first and foremost, a program of land acquisition. We can see the dual attack on Palestinian economic self-determination and land ownership in Israel’s routine destruction of Palestinian olive groves. Settlers, often armed or otherwise protected by armed agents of the state, uproot, burn, or cut down olive trees, with increasing frequency since 2019. The aim is to drive Palestinians from their land by destroying the subsistence produced by the land itself and nurtured over centuries by Palestinian farmers, in an effort to “Judaize” the area. As Palestinians flee from unchecked violence, forced from their land at the barrel of a gun, Jewish settlements appear in their wake, strictly illegal but in practice facilitated by the state until they are eventually recognized and assimilated into the legally regulated regime of property. (The whole cycle of legalizing illegal settlements, in any event, is something of a formality as their existence and proliferation is the entire raison d’être of the Zionist project.) When Palestinians refuse to leave and cannot be forced, they are murdered.”

Jake Romm, Elements of Anti-Semitism: The Limits of Zionism in Parapraxis Mag

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In fact, far more Asian workers moved to the Americas in the 19th century to make sugar than to build the transcontinental railroad [...]. [T]housands of Chinese migrants were recruited to work [...] on Louisiana’s sugar plantations after the Civil War. [...] Recruited and reviled as "coolies," their presence in sugar production helped justify racial exclusion after the abolition of slavery.

In places where sugar cane is grown, such as Mauritius, Fiji, Hawaii, Guyana, Trinidad and Suriname, there is usually a sizable population of Asians who can trace their ancestry to India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere. They are descendants of sugar plantation workers, whose migration and labor embodied the limitations and contradictions of chattel slavery’s slow death in the 19th century. [...]

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Mass consumption of sugar in industrializing Europe and North America rested on mass production of sugar by enslaved Africans in the colonies. The whip, the market, and the law institutionalized slavery across the Americas, including in the U.S. When the Haitian Revolution erupted in 1791 and Napoleon Bonaparte’s mission to reclaim Saint-Domingue, France’s most prized colony, failed, slaveholding regimes around the world grew alarmed. In response to a series of slave rebellions in its own sugar colonies, especially in Jamaica, the British Empire formally abolished slavery in the 1830s. British emancipation included a payment of £20 million to slave owners, an immense sum of money that British taxpayers made loan payments on until 2015.

Importing indentured labor from Asia emerged as a potential way to maintain the British Empire’s sugar plantation system.

In 1838 John Gladstone, father of future prime minister William E. Gladstone, arranged for the shipment of 396 South Asian workers, bound to five years of indentured labor, to his sugar estates in British Guiana. The experiment with “Gladstone coolies,” as those workers came to be known, inaugurated [...] “a new system of [...] [indentured servitude],” which would endure for nearly a century. [...]

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Bonaparte [...] agreed to sell France's claims [...] to the U.S. [...] in 1803, in [...] the Louisiana Purchase. Plantation owners who escaped Saint-Domingue [Haiti] with their enslaved workers helped establish a booming sugar industry in southern Louisiana. On huge plantations surrounding New Orleans, home of the largest slave market in the antebellum South, sugar production took off in the first half of the 19th century. By 1853, Louisiana was producing nearly 25% of all exportable sugar in the world. [...] On the eve of the Civil War, Louisiana’s sugar industry was valued at US$200 million. More than half of that figure represented the valuation of the ownership of human beings – Black people who did the backbreaking labor [...]. By the war’s end, approximately $193 million of the sugar industry’s prewar value had vanished.

Desperate to regain power and authority after the war, Louisiana’s wealthiest planters studied and learned from their Caribbean counterparts. They, too, looked to Asian workers for their salvation, fantasizing that so-called “coolies” [...].

Thousands of Chinese workers landed in Louisiana between 1866 and 1870, recruited from the Caribbean, China and California. Bound to multiyear contracts, they symbolized Louisiana planters’ racial hope [...].

To great fanfare, Louisiana’s wealthiest planters spent thousands of dollars to recruit gangs of Chinese workers. When 140 Chinese laborers arrived on Millaudon plantation near New Orleans on July 4, 1870, at a cost of about $10,000 in recruitment fees, the New Orleans Times reported that they were “young, athletic, intelligent, sober and cleanly” and superior to “the vast majority of our African population.” [...] But [...] [w]hen they heard that other workers earned more, they demanded the same. When planters refused, they ran away. The Chinese recruits, the Planters’ Banner observed in 1871, were “fond of changing about, run away worse than [Black people], and … leave as soon as anybody offers them higher wages.”

When Congress debated excluding the Chinese from the United States in 1882, Rep. Horace F. Page of California argued that the United States could not allow the entry of “millions of cooly slaves and serfs.” That racial reasoning would justify a long series of anti-Asian laws and policies on immigration and naturalization for nearly a century.

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All text above by: Moon-Ho Jung. "Making sugar, making 'coolies': Chinese laborers toiled alongside Black workers on 19th-century Louisiana plantations". The Conversation. 13 January 2022. [All bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

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Needle-free COVID-19 intranasal vaccine provides broad immunity, study finds - Published Agu 27, 2024

A next-generation COVID-19 mucosal vaccine is set to be a gamechanger not only when delivering the vaccine itself, but also for people who are needle-phobic.

New Griffith University research, "A single-dose intranasal live-attenuated codon deoptimized vaccine provides broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants" published in Nature Communications, has been testing the efficacy of delivering a COVID-19 vaccine via the nasal passages.

Professor Suresh Mahalingam from Griffith's Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics has been working on this research for the past four years.

"This is a live attenuated intranasal vaccine, called CDO-7N-1, designed to be administered intranasally, thereby inducing potential mucosal immunity as well as systemic immunity with just a single dose," Professor Mahalingam said.

"The vaccine induces strong memory responses in the nasal mucosa, offering long-term protection for up to a year or more.

"It's been designed to be administered as a single dose, ideally as a booster vaccine, as a safe alternative to needles with no adverse reactions in the short or long term."

Live-attenuated vaccines offer several significant advantages over other vaccine approaches.

They induce potent and long-lived humoral and cellular immunity, often with just a single dose.

Live-attenuated vaccines comprise the entire virus, thereby providing broad immunity, in contrast to a single antigen which is used in many other vaccine platforms.

Lead author Dr. Xiang Liu said the vaccine provides cross-protection against all variants of concern, and has neutralizing capacity against SARS-CoV-1.

"The vaccine offers potent protection against transmission, prevents reinfection and the spread of the virus, while also reducing the generation of new variants," Dr. Liu said.

"Unlike the mRNA vaccine which targets only the spike protein, CDO-7N-1 induces immunity to all major SARS-CoV-2 proteins and is highly effective against all major variants to date.

"Importantly, the vaccine remains stable at 4°C for seven months, making it ideal for low- and middle-income countries."

The vaccine has been licensed to Indian Immunologicals Ltd, a major vaccine manufacturer.

Dr. K. Anand Kumar, co-author of the publication and Managing Director of Indian Immunologicals Ltd. Said, "We are a leading 'One Health' company that has developed and launched several vaccines for human and animal use in India and are currently exporting to 62 countries."

"We have completed all the necessary studies of this novel COVID-19 vaccine which offers tremendous advantages over other vaccines.

"We now look forward to taking the vaccine candidate to clinical trials."

Professor Lee Smith, Acting Director of the Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics, said he was delighted with the research findings.

"These results towards developing a next-generation COVID-19 vaccine are truly exciting," Professor Smith said.

"Our researchers are dedicated to providing innovative and, crucially, more accessible solutions to combat this high-impact disease."

More information: Xiang Liu et al, A single-dose intranasal live-attenuated codon deoptimized vaccine provides broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51535-y

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Explore major exporters in India across various industries, highlighting their global impact and contribution to the nation's booming export market. Discover key statistics, major export items, and how platforms like Eximpedia.app can help you access reliable trade data for global market expansion.

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Asian slaves, indigenous Americans, and identity in colonial era Mexico

The Spanish Philippines had a diverse slave population for local labor and export, including Filipino Indians [i.e. natives; indios], Muslim war captives (moros), and foreign slaves from as far away as Portuguese India.

… Upon their arrival, chino slaves [i.e. any Asian slave, not just Chinese] were absorbed by the urban economy of Mexico City, where they mainly worked as domestic servants or in textile mills (obrajes) … For their part, working in the city provided chinos with some possibilities for manumission. Chinos in domestic service were especially apt to embrace the limited opportunities available to them and to experience some social mobility. In the obrajes, chinos had few of the freedoms given to domestic servants, but they did benefit from government oversight of the industry. During official visits, chino slaves appealed for protection from overt exploitation by claiming that they were Indians (even if they were from Portuguese India). Remarkably, visiting inspectors listened to their complaints, and they often responded by liberating individual chinos under the assumption that they were indeed native vassals and could thus not be held in bondage. The overall experience of chinos in the viceroyal capital confirms the benefits of living close to the center of colonial power.

The presence of free indigenous immigrants from the Spanish Philippines in Mexico reinforced the idea that all chinos were Indians. The complex governing structure of colonial Mexico involved two republics or political communities (the república de indios and the república de españoles); this organization separated the indigenous majority from everyone else to facilitate the collection of tribute and the ministry of the Catholic Church … [N]ative immigrants from the Philippines purposely sought to confirm their membership in the Republic because corporate status provided personal advantages. They asked to be tallied in tribute rolls in Mexico to benefit from concomitant privileges, such as trading rights and legal representation through the General Indian Court. At the same time, free Filipinos were frequently confused with chino slaves - a situation that had serious consequences for Filipinos' relations with colonial institutions and enslaved individuals. Some immigrants resented having their indigenous identity questioned and sought to maintain a sense of their Indian-ness by keeping their distance from chino slaves. The majority, however, expressed solidarity with chino slaves. Filipino artisans, for example, took on chino slaves as apprentices and taught them marketable skills. Similarly, Filipino traders incorporated chinos into their own credit networks to facilitate self-purchase.

Individual chinos who were manumitted also embraced an Indian identity, regardless of whether they were from Goa, Macau, or other places in South and Southeast Asia. In this way, chinos challenged official attempts to define them solely as former slaves. Instead, they sought to join the free republic. The possibility for this kind of social integration caused widespread concern among slave owners. To defend their property rights, masters started to brand chino slaves on the face, rather than on the chest or arm as they did with Africans, in order to dissuade them from fleeing and "passing" as free Indians. This horrifying development shows that Indian communities welcomed runaway chino slaves and, by extension, that slave owners sought visible markers of their slaves' status.

Excerpt from the Introduction to “Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians” (2014) by Tatiana Seijas

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India's ports play a vital role in global trade, with 13 major seaports facilitating 95% of the country's trade by volume. Discover key ports like Mumbai, JNPT, and Mundra, and learn how these maritime hubs drive India's economic growth.

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Top 10 Products to Export from India

India's dynamic economy has become a major force in international trade, with a significant increase in exports over the past few decades. The diverse range of goods exported from India includes essentials like clothing and petroleum products, as well as valuable items such as jewelry. India is now among the leading exporters, catering to the needs of a wide array of global consumers with both traditional and cutting-edge technologies.

Considering Exporting from India?

Are you interested in exporting but unsure what products to focus on? Curious about the most popular goods exported by Indian businesses? Look no further. This article overviews India's top export products, offering insights into market trends and high-demand items for 2024.

The Importance of Exports for India

Exports are vital for India's economic growth, generating essential foreign exchange that funds necessary imports and supports the rupee. A robust export sector creates jobs across various industries, driving overall growth and improving livelihoods.

India's top 10 exports significantly contribute to its economy, making it one of the world's largest exporters. Understanding consumer preferences, market trends, and key product details is crucial for success in global trade. Exporting from India is an essential strategy for business owners looking to expand.

Top Export Products from India in 2024

India's export industry is vast and varied. Here's a detailed look at the India export products list for 2024:

Pharmaceuticals

Petroleum Products

Machines and Equipment

Gems and Jewelry

Textiles and Garments

Tea

Organic and Inorganic Chemicals

Iron and Steel

Vehicles

Dairy Products

Detailed Overview of Top Export Products

Pharmaceuticals and Medicines India is renowned for its pharmaceutical industry, exporting life-saving drugs and therapies to over 200 countries. This sector contributes about 6% of all exports, with a 9.67% increase in exports to USD 27.9 billion in 2023–2024. India exports a wide range of pharmaceutical products, including vaccines, biosimilars, APIs, and generic medications.

Petroleum Products As Asia's second-biggest refinery, India exports petroleum products like petrol, diesel, and jet fuel to countries including the US, China, and the Netherlands. This sector contributes around 10% of total export value, with an export value of USD 15.5 billion.

Machines and Equipment India exports machinery and mechanical appliances, with an export value of USD 3.1 billion. The engineering sector produces high-quality machine tools, pumps, engines, and turbines, recognized globally.

Gems and Jewelry India is a top exporter of cut and polished diamonds, pearls, and gemstones, primarily from Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. These items are highly sought after in the US, UAE, and Hong Kong, with an export value of USD 10.2 billion.

Textiles and Garments India's textile and apparel industry, which includes both natural and synthetic fibers, accounts for around 7% of all exports. This sector's export value is USD 6.8 billion.

Tea India's tea exports, including Assam and Darjeeling varieties, contribute over 3% of the country's total export value, with an export value of USD 1.2 billion.

Organic and Inorganic Chemicals As the third-largest chemical manufacturer in Asia, India's chemical exports contribute around 5% of total exports. The export value for this sector is USD 4.9 billion.

Iron and Steel India is a major exporter of iron and steel, essential for global construction. The export value for this sector is USD 2.9 billion.

Vehicles India exports automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles, with an export value of USD 2.7 billion. Major export destinations include the US, Europe, and Africa.

Dairy Products Dairy products are a significant export, especially in Western markets. India's dairy sector has an export value of USD 2.4 billion.

Finding India's Top Exporters

For accurate and up-to-date information on India export products, visit ExportImportData's dashboard. It provides comprehensive data on export products, major exports, and the top 10 exports from India.

Conclusion

Exports are a primary driver of India's economic growth, creating foreign exchange, jobs, and industrial development. Now is the time to start exporting and take advantage of global opportunities. With the ExportImportData platform, you can easily ship to over 130 countries. If you have questions about India’s top exports or need specific export data, our experts are here to help.

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Discover India's top agricultural exports and its major role in the global market, with rice leading the way. Explore key products and export insights.

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