COMPARATIVE STUDY OF

INDIAN EXPORT PRODUCTS TO

VARIOUS DESTINATIONS

Presented by:
Mohit Bali
Munish Kaushal
Pallavi Gupta
Parampal Singh
WORLD SCENARIO
INDIA’S MERCHANDISE EXPORTS
 EXPORTS SCENARIO IN INDIA

• Current Exports: April 09-March 10 US$ 178.7

Billion
• Target for current year US$ 200 Billion
• Share in World Exports: 1.5%
• Ranking in World Exports: 26
• Exports as % of GDP : 20%
• Employment in exports :175 Million
• Exports Target for 2020 : 5% of World Trade
 Composition of Trade
Commodity %Share
• AGRI & ALLIED PRDTS 7.07%
• MARINE PRODUCTS 1.17%
• ORES & MINERALS 4.88%
• LEATHER & MNFRS 1.88%
• GEMS & JEWELLERY 16.23%
• CHEMICALS & PRDTS 13. 64%
 Composition of Trade(Contd.)

• ENGINEERING GOODS 18.31%

• ELECTRONICS 3.16%
• TEXTILES,CARPTES AND
HANDICRAFT 11.23%
• COTTON RAW INCL. WASTE 1.15%
• PETROLEUM PRODUCTS 15.75%
• OTHERS 4.80%
COMMODITY GROUP-WISE EXPORT CONTRIBUTION
INDIA’S TOP 10 EXPORT DESTINATIONS
 Direction of Trade
1)  Europe 21.56%
EU Countries (27) 20.17%
Other WE Countries 1.33%
East Europe 0.07%
2)  Africa 5.77%
Southern Africa 1.85%
West Africa 1.76%
Central Africa 0.20%
East Africa 1.97%
 Direction of Trade(Contd.)
3)  America 15.04%
North America 11.56%
Latin America 3 .48%
4)  Asia & ASEAN 53.94%
East Asia 0.95%
ASEAN 10.12%
WANA 22.02%
NE Asia 16.11%
South Asia 4.73%
 Direction of Trade(Contd.)
5)  CIS & Baltics 0.94%
 CARs Countries 0.15%
Other CIS Countries 0.79%

6) Other Countries 2.75%

Emerging Destinations
EMERGING DESTINATIONS
 Trends in Commodity Export

• Indian chemical and pharmaceutical industry

• IT and ITeS-BPO
• Readymade garments and textiles
• Engineering goods
• Minerals and metals
• Gems and jewellery
• Food and agro products
• Leather products
• Home furnishing
• Plastic industry
Indian chemical and pharmaceutical
industry
• Largest share
among export
products
• Contributes to
7 % of the
Indian GDP.
 Future outlook
• low cost infrastructure
• According to a recent report, India's chemical
exports have the potential to rise US$ 300
billion by 2015. This defines an investment of
US$ 50 billion in chemical industry alone.
• tremendous export potential in dyestuff and
agrochemical market.
• Availability and abundance of raw materials for
titanium dioxide and agro-based products
 IT and ITeS-BPO

• In FY07, exports constituted around 38.5% of

the total service exports.
 Readymade garments and textiles
• contributed 6.9% to the total merchandise exports in FY07.
• phase-out of MFA in 2005
• US, UK and UAE-contributed over 49% of the total readymade
garment exports in FY07
 Indian Exports of Apparel & Textile – Facts &
Figures
• Exports increased from US$ 14 million (2004-05) to US$ 17 million (2005-06) –
21.77 % increase.
• With continuing growth, the total exports has increased to – US$ 19.62 billion
(2006-07).
• Major export market – Europe (22% share in textiles & 43% share in apparel).
• Single largest buyer – US ( 10% share in textiles and 32.65 share in apparel).
• Other major export markets include - UAE, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Bangladesh,
China, Turkey and Japan.
• Largest export segment – Readymade Garments (45% share in textile exports
and 8.25 share in India's total exports).
• Readymade garments sector has benefited significantly with the termination of
Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA in January 2005.
 Engineering goods

• second-largest product group in India’s merchandise exports

with a contribution of about 14.9%.
• US has been a major export market for India’s engineering
goods, especially electrical machinery and equipment exports and
has a 26% share in these exports.
 Indian Handicrafts and Gifts

• The items, include - art metalware, woodware, hand-printed textiles,

hand-knotted and embroidered textiles, leather goods, stoneware,
paintings and sculpture, jewelry and antique & collectibles. 

export of handicrafts
has shown an
increase of Rs.
2761.29 crores, from
Rs.14, 526.85 to
Rs.17, 288.14 crores
(increase of 19.01%
in rupees term).
 Minerals and metals
• China is the major market for minerals and metals, especially
for iron ore as its share in India’s total iron ore exports has
gone up from about 73.1% in FY04 to around 85.4% in FY07
 Gems and jewellery

US accounted for a majority share of 30.3% in the total exports,

followed by Hong Kong at 22%. Additionally, the UAE emerged
as an important market for Indian gems and jewellery

Currently the major

destinations for India's gem
and jewelry exports are –

•United States (28 percent)

•Hong Kong (21 per cent)
•UAE (15 per cent)
•Singapore (9 per cent)
•Belgium (8 Per cent)
 Food and agro products
• fifth-largest product group in India’s export basket.
• 9.9% of the total merchandise exports in FY07 and grossed US$12.5
bn
• 2nd largest rice producer after China and the 3rd largest net-exporter
after Thailand and Vietnam. 
 Leather products
• Accounts for 2.3% of India’s total merchandise exports in FY07 at US$ 2.9
billion.
• Germany and Italy-accounted for 13.5% in the total leather exports,
followed by the UK at 11.9% and the US at 10.3%.
•  Indian leather exports account for 3% of the global trade with USA,
Germany, UK and Spain as major markets
 Home furnishing
• With their ethnic, intricate carvings, weaves, pattern themes, motifs, color
schemes and workmanship, Indian home furnishing products are gaining
immense popularity among buyers the world across.
• The share of Indian exports in home textiles is increasing day by day. In 2002-
03, the value of export of cotton handloom fabrics and made-ups was Rs. 544
crore, the value of export of handmade carpet and other floor coverings was
of the order of Rs. 2590.26 crore and value of exports of other home
furnishing products was Rs. 2633.37 crore. 
Trend in value of export of cotton handloom fabrics
and made-ups (1998-89-2002-03) (Rs in Crores)

Year Fabric Made-Ups Total Total

(Value)
1998-99 503.58 1414.76 1918.34 456

1999-00 488.48 1491.57 1980.05 447

2000-01 489.63 1637.82 2127.45 466

2001-02 496.47 1568.47 2064.94 433

2002-03 842.94 1790.33 2633.27 544

 Plastic Industry
• 2006, the value of world plastic export was US$ 375 billion.
• the export of plastics raw material increased from 55 % to 60 %
of the total export of plastic goods
Regional export patterns
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