Which commodities does India import?

IMPORTS OF PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES - RUPEES
(Rupees Billion)

Year/ Commodity	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	Percentage 2012-13
I.  Bulk Imports	4539.18	6274.86	5927.84	6882.37	10304.47	12482.93	46.70%
I.A  Petroleum, Crude and Products	3206.55	4199.68	4116.49	4822.82	7430.75	9204.56	34.43%
I.B  Bulk Consumption Goods	185.21	228.83	427.59	403.45	558.53	773.69	2.89%
1.  Cereals and Cereal Preparations	28.39	2.16	4.97	5.45	3.52	4.53	0.02%
2.  Edible Oils	103.01	158.38	264.83	298.60	462.55	611.06	2.29%
3.  Pulses	53.75	62.46	98.13	71.50	89.31	127.39	0.48%
4.  Sugar	0.06	5.83	59.66	27.90	3.14	30.72	0.11%
I.C  Other Bulk Items	1147.43	1846.36	1383.76	1656.10	2315.19	2504.68	9.37%
1.  Fertilisers	217.65	626.73	324.37	326.32	555.97	494.33	1.85%
1 (a)  Crude	18.82	48.87	33.26	32.61	83.82	73.35	0.27%
1 (b)  Sulphur and Unroasted Iron Pyrites	14.58	29.95	6.82	10.99	22.86	17.39	0.07%
1 (c)  Manufactured	184.26	547.91	284.29	282.72	449.29	403.59	1.51%
2.  Non-Ferrous Metals	141.12	262.13	142.64	185.90	234.28	278.78	1.04%
3.  Paper, Paper Boards, Manufactures including News Prints	57.36	81.42	71.36	96.14	123.05	129.45	0.48%
4.  Crude Rubber, including Synthetic and Reclaimed	31.63	39.59	48.13	80.74	119.90	121.57	0.45%
5.  Pulp and Waste Paper	31.32	37.05	41.78	52.08	65.24	69.88	0.26%
6.  Metalliferrous Ores, Metal Scrap, etc.	318.53	363.64	364.50	442.17	641.23	815.18	3.05%
7.  Iron and Steel	349.81	435.80	390.98	472.75	575.52	595.49	2.23%
II.  Non-Bulk Imports	5583.94	7469.49	7709.51	9952.30	13150.16	14248.20	53.30%
II.A  Capital Goods	2822.69	3303.84	3124.85	3578.76	4755.07	4975.77	18.61%
1.  Manufactures of Metals	107.20	149.71	113.96	151.67	204.23	233.33	0.87%
2.  Machine Tools	88.90	103.94	78.55	102.76	143.11	150.25	0.56%
3.  Machinery except Electrical and Electronic	799.59	993.50	933.83	1086.52	1443.00	1504.04	5.63%
4.  Electrical Machinery except Electronic	115.57	169.51	147.71	175.10	228.99	242.35	0.91%
5.  Electronic Goods	813.66	1073.20	994.19	1210.17	1565.04	1711.59	6.40%
6.  Computer Goods	35.98	58.63	79.73	51.47	73.76	31.26	0.12%
7.  Transport Equipment	809.71	608.51	554.72	521.12	674.74	746.14	2.79%
8.  Project Goods	52.08	146.86	222.17	279.96	422.21	356.80	1.33%
II.B  Mainly Export Related Items	836.15	1468.60	1483.55	2442.53	2486.97	2548.82	9.54%
1.  Pearls, Precious and Semi-Precious Stones	320.94	762.63	766.78	1575.96	1342.66	1230.71	4.60%
2.  Organic and Inorganic Chemicals	398.45	561.25	564.73	693.50	902.96	1047.75	3.92%
3.  Textile Yarn, Fabrics, Made-Ups, etc.	99.61	117.99	121.57	146.58	187.96	217.05	0.81%
4.  Cashew Nuts	17.15	26.72	30.48	26.50	53.39	53.31	0.20%
II.C  Others	1925.10	2697.05	3101.11	3931.00	5908.12	6723.61	25.15%
1.  Gold and Silver	719.34	1047.86	1404.40	1935.62	2942.55	3029.22	11.33%
1 (a)  Gold	673.30	953.24	1358.78	1847.42	2699.01	2921.49	10.93%
1 (b)  Silver	46.03	94.63	45.62	88.20	243.54	107.73	0.40%
2.  Artificial Resins and Plastic Materials, etc.	148.37	181.17	236.75	313.04	361.34	469.23	1.76%
3.  Professional, Scientific Controlling Instruments, Photographic Optical Goods	157.00	203.30	171.57	192.00	251.46	292.06	1.09%
4.  Coal, Coke and Briquittes, etc.	258.62	459.48	425.11	446.70	835.96	839.99	3.14%
5.  Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Products	67.30	86.75	99.59	111.14	142.88	169.65	0.63%
6.  Chemical Materials and Products	65.44	96.26	108.74	132.78	165.95	197.56	0.74%
7.  Non-Metallic Mineral Manufactures	42.14	53.88	51.28	69.40	98.94	112.53	0.42%
8.  Others	466.90	568.35	603.67	730.33	1109.04	1613.37	6.04%
III.  Total Imports/All Commodities	10123.12	13744.36	13637.36	16834.67	23454.63	26731.13	100.00%

Ranking

Rank	Item	% of total Imports
1	Petroleum, Crude and Products	34.43%
2	Gold	10.93%
3	Electronic Goods	6.40%
4	Others	6.04%
5	Machinery except Electrical and Electronic	5.63%
6	Pearls, Precious and Semi-Precious Stones	4.60%
7	Organic and Inorganic Chemicals	3.92%
8	Coal, Coke and Briquittes, etc.	3.14%
9	Metalliferrous Ores, Metal Scrap, etc.	3.05%
10	Transport Equipment	2.79%
11	Edible Oils	2.29%
12	Iron and Steel	2.23%
13	Artificial Resins and Plastic Materials, etc.	1.76%
14	Fertilisers Manufactured	1.51%
15	Project Goods	1.33%
16	Professional, Scientific Controlling Instruments, Photographic Optical Goods	1.09%
17	Non-Ferrous Metals	1.04%
18	Electrical Machinery except Electronic	0.91%
19	Manufactures of Metals	0.87%
20	Textile Yarn, Fabrics, Made-Ups, etc.	0.81%
21	Chemical Materials and Products	0.74%
22	Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Products	0.63%
23	Machine Tools	0.56%
24	Paper, Paper Boards, Manufactures including News Prints	0.48%
25	Pulses	0.48%
26	Crude Rubber, including Synthetic and Reclaimed	0.45%
27	Non-Metallic Mineral Manufactures	0.42%
28	Silver	0.40%
29	Fertilisers Crude	0.27%
30	Pulp and Waste Paper	0.26%
31	Cashew Nuts	0.20%
32	Computer Goods	0.12%
33	Sugar	0.11%
34	Fertilisers Sulphur and Unroasted Iron Pyrites	0.07%
35	Cereals and Cereal Preparations	0.02%

Source of this data is: http://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=redirectURL&r=%2FOpenDocument%2Fopendoc%2FopenDocument.jsp%3FrbiApp%3Dtrue%26iDocID%3D2057535%26sType%3Dwid%26sRefresh%3DYes%26token%3DCDBMSAP2.rbi1.rbi.org.in%3A7400%4012664312J5Lw3kK4YdeJKc1a12664311J3oGycpJPesk2DuF


Date on which this data was exported: 2nd September 2013