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Heading in chapter 28 — Inorganic chemicals; compounds of precious metals, rare-earth metals

Artificial corundum

Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminium oxide; aluminium hydroxide

$1.7BIndia’s exports in 2025
104countries bought from India in 2025
3.5×change since 2013 ($500M)
38%of chapter 28 exports

India’s exports, year by year

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

Biggest buyers, 2025

  1. Oman
  2. United Kingdom
  3. United Arab Emirates
  4. Egypt
  5. Russian Federation
  6. Indonesia
  7. Qatar
  8. China
  9. Malaysia
  10. Netherlands

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

What's inside 2818

3 codes India exports
2818.20Aluminium oxide, other than artifical corundum$1.7B in 2025 — 96% of the total2818.30Aluminium hydroxide$49M in 2025 — 3% of the total2818.10Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined$19M in 2025 — 1% of the total

Other codes in chapter 28

2803Carbon (carbon blacks and other forms of carbon not elsewhere specified of included)$518M in 20252827Chlorides, chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides$338M in 20252815Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda)$338M in 20252833Sulphates$163M in 20252825Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts$140M in 20252836Carbonates$127M in 20252811Other inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen compounds of non-metals$113M in 20252845Isotopes other than those of heading 2844$88M in 20252829Chlorates and perchlorates$79M in 20252841Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids$77M in 20252823Titanium oxides$72M in 20252807Sulphuric acid$64M in 2025