What does India import the most?

India's largest import is crude oil, worth $129B in 2025, 18% of its total imports of $721B.

Does India run a trade surplus or deficit?

India ran a trade deficit of $255B in 2025: it imported $721B of goods and exported $466B.

Precious metal compounds is India's fastest-growing top import by value, up 3.3x year over year, reaching $5.8B in 2025.

$721B

2025 · Annual

India yearly trade, 2015-2025

India monthly trade through June 2026

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Crude oil	$129B	17.8%	-5.4%
2	Gold	$55.2B	7.7%	-1.1%
3	Coal	$26.6B	3.7%	-16%
4	Petroleum gases	$25.7B	3.6%	-6.7%
5	Integrated circuits	$25.4B	3.5%	+15%
6	Refined industrial goods	$21.1B	2.8%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$17.8B	2.4%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$14.5B	2.0%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$11.2B	1.6%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$7.9B	1.1%	-5.4%

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Precious metal compounds	$5.8B	0.8%	+3.3x
2	Nitrogenous fertilizers	$4.7B	0.7%	+102%
3	Fertilizers	$6.7B	0.9%	+84%
4	Raw cotton	$1.8B	0.2%	+82%
5	Soybean oil	$6.2B	0.9%	+56%
6	Refined industrial goods	$5.1B	0.7%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$4.3B	0.6%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$3.5B	0.5%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$2.7B	0.4%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$1.9B	0.4%	-5.4%

Source & methodology

We use primary trade sources for every country. See our methodology page for how we source and verify this data.

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