$450KIndia’s exports in FY 2025-26
8countries bought from India
-13%against FY 2024-25 ($520K)
1,040tonnes shipped in FY 2025-26
India’s exports, year by year
US$, Indian financial years (April–March). Source: DGCI&S, Ministry of Commerce (Tradestat).
Biggest buyers, FY 2025-26
- U S A
- U Arab Emts
- Bangladesh Pr
- Australia
- Netherland
- U K
- Japan
- Thailand
Ranked by value. Country-by-country figures are not shown.
GST on this code
5%
- 5% — Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof.Notification 9/2025-CT(R), Schedule I, entry 16
GST on supply within India, as of 1 May 2026. Exports are zero-rated supplies.
Other codes in 0508.00
0508.00.40Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs…$2.9M in FY 2025-260508.00.90Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs…$310K in FY 2025-260508.00.30Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs…$130K in FY 2025-260508.00.50Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs…$40K in FY 2024-25