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Heading in chapter 96 — Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button moulds and other parts…

$27MIndia’s exports in 2025
102countries bought from India in 2025
1.2×change since 2013 ($23M)
4%of chapter 96 exports

India’s exports, year by year

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

Biggest buyers, 2025

  1. Italy
  2. Bangladesh
  3. China
  4. Sri Lanka
  5. Spain
  6. Viet Nam
  7. Rep. of Korea
  8. Japan
  9. USA
  10. Indonesia

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

What's inside 9606

5 codes India exports
9606.30Button moulds and other parts of buttons; button blanks$16M in 2025 — 58% of the total9606.21Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button moulds and other parts… — of plastics, not covered with textile material$5.1M in 2025 — 19% of the total9606.10Press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs and parts thereof$3.6M in 2025 — 13% of the total9606.29Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button moulds and other parts… — other types$2.0M in 2025 — 7% of the total9606.22Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button moulds and other parts… — of base metals, not covered with textile material$690K in 2025 — 3% of the total

Other codes in chapter 96

9608Ball point pens$220M in 20259602Worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles ot these materials moulded or…$161M in 20259603Brooms, brushes$125M in 20259609Pencils (other than pencils of heading 9608 ), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing…$56M in 20259619Sanitary Towels (Pads) and Tampons, Napkins and Napkin Liners for babies and simillar…$41M in 20259607Slide fasteners and parts thereof$22M in 20259614Smoking pipes$14M in 20259601Worked ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-penal and other…$8.2M in 20259615Combs, hair-slides and the like, hairpins, curling pins, curling grips, hair-curlers and…$8.0M in 20259617Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases$7.4M in 20259613Cigarette lighters and other lighters$5.9M in 20259616Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays, and mounts and heads therefor$5.3M in 2025