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Organic chemicals

$20BIndia’s exports in 2025
192countries bought from India in 2025
1.6×change since 2013 ($13B)
$25BIndia 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. USA
  2. China
  3. Netherlands
  4. Brazil
  5. Saudi Arabia
  6. Germany
  7. Singapore
  8. Belgium
  9. Rep. of Korea
  10. Japan

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

Headings in this chapter

40 codes India exports
2933Heterocycliccompoundswithnitrogen hetero-atom(s) only$4.3B in 2025 — 21% of the total2902Cyclic hydrocarbons$1.4B in 2025 — 7% of the total2942Other organic compounds$1.3B in 2025 — 6% of the total2921Amine- function compounds$1.1B in 2025 — 6% of the total2941Antibiotics$935M in 2025 — 5% of the total2934Nucleic acids and their salts$840M in 2025 — 4% of the total2924Carboxyamide-functioncompounds$831M in 2025 — 4% of the total2915Saturatedacyclicmonocarboxylicacidsandtheir anhydrides, halides, peroxides andperoxyacids$710M in 2025 — 4% of the total2922Oxygen-functionamino-compounds - amino-alcohols, other than those containing more than…$705M in 2025 — 4% of the total2918Carboxylicacidswithadditionaloxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and…$692M in 2025 — 3% of the total2909Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcoholperoxides, ether…$643M in 2025 — 3% of the total2914Ketones and quinones$605M in 2025 — 3% of the total2905Acyclic alcoholsand their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives$507M in 2025 — 3% of the total2930Organo-sulphur compounds$479M in 2025 — 2% of the total2932Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero- atom (s) only$463M in 2025 — 2% of the total2903Halogenatedderivatives ofhydrocarbons$393M in 2025 — 2% of the total2939Vegetablealkaloids, natural orreproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters…$366M in 2025 — 2% of the total2916Unsaturatedacyclicmonocarboxylicacids, cyclic monocarboxylic acids, theiranhydrides…$362M in 2025 — 2% of the total2935Sulphonamides$352M in 2025 — 2% of the total2937Hormones, prostaglandins, thromboxanesand leukotrienes, naturalor reproducedby synthesis$325M in 2025 — 2% of the total2936Provitaminsandvitamins, naturalor reproduced by synthesis (includingnatural…$316M in 2025 — 2% of the total2917Polycarboxylic acids, theiranhydrides,halides, peroxides and peroxyacids$301M in 2025 — 2% of the total2907Phenols$274M in 2025 — 1% of the total2906Cyclic alcoholsand theirhalogenated,sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives$253M in 2025 — 1% of the total2912Aldehydes$219M in 2025 — 1% of the total2923Quaternaryammoniumsaltsandhydroxides$187M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2901Acyclic hydrocarbons$166M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2925Carboxyimide-functioncompounds$155M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2931Other organo-inorganic compounds$141M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2928Organic derivatives of hydrazine or of hydroxylamine$115M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2926Nitrile-function compounds$109M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2920Esters of other inorganicacids of non-metals(excluding esters of hydrogen halides) and…$93M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2938Glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis and their salts, ethers, esters and other…$75M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2927Diazo-, azo- or azoxy-compounds$73M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2910Epoxides, epoxyalcohols, epoxyphenols and expoxyethers, witha three-memberedring, and…$35M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2919Phosphoric esters and their salts, including lactophosphates$33M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2908Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of phenols or phenol-…$32M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2929Compounds with other nitrogen function$31M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2913Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of products of heading 2912$21M in 2025 — under 1% of the total2911Acetals and hemiacetals$15M in 2025 — under 1% of the total