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Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement

$2.2BIndia’s exports in 2025
180countries bought from India in 2025
1.1×change since 2013 ($2.0B)
$5.2BIndia also imported in 2025

India’s exports, year by year

US$, calendar years, all destinations combined. Source: UN Comtrade (India’s own reports).

Biggest buyers, 2025

  1. China
  2. Bangladesh
  3. USA
  4. United Arab Emirates
  5. Rep. of Korea
  6. Saudi Arabia
  7. Viet Nam
  8. Japan
  9. Indonesia
  10. Sri Lanka

Ranked by value. Country-by-country figures are not shown.

Headings in this chapter

28 codes India exports
2516Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone$557M in 2025 — 25% of the total2501Salt$404M in 2025 — 18% of the total2503Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and collodial…$250M in 2025 — 11% of the total2508Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 6806), andalusite, kyanite and…$154M in 2025 — 7% of the total2511Natural barium sulphate (barytes)$144M in 2025 — 7% of the total2506Quartz (other than natural sands)$122M in 2025 — 6% of the total2529Feldspar$74M in 2025 — 3% of the total2521Limestone flux$67M in 2025 — 3% of the total2517Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete…$65M in 2025 — 3% of the total2525Mica, including splittings$59M in 2025 — 3% of the total2507Kaolin and other kaolinic clays$56M in 2025 — 3% of the total2515Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an…$46M in 2025 — 2% of the total2526Natural steatite$45M in 2025 — 2% of the total2523Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar…$45M in 2025 — 2% of the total2513Pumice stones$39M in 2025 — 2% of the total2530Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included$27M in 2025 — 1% of the total2514Slate$8.4M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2520Gypsum$7.2M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2519Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite)$7.0M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2522Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of…$5.5M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2518Dolomite$2.6M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2504Natural graphite$2.5M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2512Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar…$2.0M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2502Unroasted iron pyrites$240K in 2025 — under 1% of the total2524Asbestos$170K in 2025 — under 1% of the total2510Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk$130K in 2025 — under 1% of the total2509Chalk$90K in 2025 — under 1% of the total2505Natural sands of all kinds$80K in 2025 — under 1% of the total