$3.6MIndia’s exports in FY 2025-26
44countries bought from India
+1%against FY 2024-25 ($3.5M)
300tonnes shipped in FY 2025-26
India’s exports, year by year
US$, Indian financial years (April–March). Source: DGCI&S, Ministry of Commerce (Tradestat).
Biggest buyers, FY 2025-26
- United Arab Emirates
- Congo (DRC)
- Nepal
- Uganda
- Israel
- Malaysia
- Malawi
- Fiji
- Oman
- Egypt
Ranked by value. Country-by-country figures are not shown.
GST on this code
18%
- 18% — Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machines of headings 8456 to 8465) for preparing or making plates, printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished)Notification 9/2025-CT(R), Schedule II, entry 429
GST on supply within India, as of 1 May 2026. Exports are zero-rated supplies.
Other codes in 8442.50
8442.50.31Plates, cylinders and other printing components, plate, cylinder and lithographic stones prepared for…$4.5M in FY 2025-268442.50.20Plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for…$4.4M in FY 2025-268442.50.10Plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for…$2.3M in FY 2025-268442.50.39Plates, cylinders and other printing components, plate, cylinder and lithographic stones prepared for…$680K in FY 2025-268442.50.40Plates, cylinders and other printing components, highly polished copper sheets for making blocks$10K in FY 2024-25