Consistent Export Growth: 11.98% CAGR Over 8 Years
India's exports under HSN Chapter 84 have grown at a compound annual rate of 11.98% over 8 fiscal years, rising from ₹1,46,652.28 Crore in FY 2018-19 to ₹3,23,757.82 Crore in FY 2025-26.
HSN Chapter 84 represents Nuclear Reactors, Boilers & Machinery under GST classification. This code helps businesses identify Nuclear Reactors, Boilers & Machinery correctly for billing, taxation, and trade purposes. With HSN Chapter 84, companies can avoid errors in invoices, simplify compliance, and enable hassle-free import/export of Nuclear Reactors, Boilers & Machinery.
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Following Sub Chapters fall under Nuclear Reactors, Boilers & Machinery:
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5% for non-irradiated fuel elements (8401 30 00); 18% for nuclear reactors, isotope-separation machinery and parts.
Old GST Rate
Description
Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors; machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation
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Steam or other vapour generating boilers (other than central heating hot water boilers capable also of producing low pressure steam); super-heated water boilers
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Description
Central heating boilers other than thoseof heading 8402
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Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading 8402 or 8403 (for example, economisers, super-heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers); condensers for steam or other vapour power units
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Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers; acetylene gas generators and similar water process gas generators, with or without their purifiers
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Description
Steam turbines and other vapour turbines
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5% for aircraft engines (8407 10 00); 18% for other spark-ignition engines and rotary engines.
Old GST Rate
Description
Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines
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5% for fixed-speed diesel engines up to 15 HP and tractor engines over 250 cc; 18% for other diesel engines, including marine and vehicle propulsion engines.
Old GST Rate
Description
Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines)
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Description
Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading 8407 or 8408
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Description
Hydraulic turbines, water wheels, andregulators therefor
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5% for turbo-jets and turbo-propellers (aircraft engines); 18% for other gas turbines and all parts.
Old GST Rate
Description
Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines
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5% for wind turbines or engines (8412 80 30); 18% for other engines and motors and their parts.
Old GST Rate
Description
Other engines and motors
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5% for hand pumps, hand-pump parts (8413 91 40) and tractor hydraulic pumps; 18% for other pumps, liquid elevators and parts.
Old GST Rate
Description
Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; liquid elevators
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5% for other hand pumps (8414 20 20); 18% for other air pumps, compressors, fans, hoods and parts.
Old GST Rate
Description
Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters; gas-tight biological safety cabinets, whether or not fitted with filters
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Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor- driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated
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Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverised solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, including their mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances
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Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, non-electric
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Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading 8412.5
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5% for solar water heaters and systems (8419 12 00); 18% for other heating, cooling and thermal-treatment machinery and parts.
Old GST Rate
Description
Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric
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5% for hand-operated rubber rollers; 18% for other calendering or rolling machines and parts.
Old GST Rate
Description
Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor
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5% for disposable sterilized dialyzers or artificial-kidney micro barriers; 18% for other centrifuges and filtering or purifying apparatus.
Old GST Rate
Description
Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases
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Dish washing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers; other packing or wrapping machinery (including heat-shrink wrapping machinery); machinery for aerating beverages
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Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 centigrams or better), including weight operated counting or checking machines; weighing machine weights of all kinds
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5% for agricultural sprayers, sprinklers, drip irrigation systems and their nozzles; 18% for fire extinguishers, spray guns, painting equipment and other appliances.
Old GST Rate
Description
Mechanical appliances (whether or not handoperated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or not charged; spray guns and similar appliances; steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines
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Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans; jacks
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Ship’s derricks; cranes including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane
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Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment
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Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors, teleferics)
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Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers
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Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; snowploughs and snow-blowers
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Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 8425 to 8430
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Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or sports- ground rollers
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5% for harvesting, threshing and mowing machinery; 18% for agricultural-produce cleaning, sorting or grading machines and their parts.
Old GST Rate
Description
Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; parts thereof
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Milking machines and dairy machinery
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Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar beverages
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Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and brooders
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Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables; machinery used in the milling industry or for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, other than farm-type machinery and parts thereof
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Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable or microbial fats or oils
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Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material or for making or finishing paper or paperboard
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Book-binding machinery, including booksewing machines
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Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting machines of all kinds
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Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other then the machine tools of headings 8456 to 8465) for preparing or making plates, printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and litho graphic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished)
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Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories thereof
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Description
Machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials
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Exempt for charkhas for hand spinning, including amber charkhas; 18% for other textile machinery.
Old GST Rate
Description
Machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning, doubling or twisting machines and other machinery for producing textile yarns; textile reeling or winding (including weftwinding) machines and machines for preparing textile yarns for use on the machines of heading 8446 or 8447
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Exempt for handlooms; 18% for power-driven weaving machines (looms).
Old GST Rate
Description
Weaving machines (looms)
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Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting
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Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, dobbies, jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanisms); parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of this heading or of heading 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, spindles and spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples, shuttles, healds and heald frames, hosiery needles)
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Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt or nonwovens in the piece or in shapes, including machinery for making felt hats; blocks for making hats
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Household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry
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Machinery (other than machines of heading 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, drying, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles and machines for applying the paste to the base fabric or other support used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum; machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics
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Sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of heading 8440; furniture, bases and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles
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Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather, other than sewing machines
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Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metallurgy or in metal foundries
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Metal-rolling mills and rolls therefor
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Machine-tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or photon beam, ultra-sonic, electrodischarge, electro-chemical, electron beam, ionic-beam or plasma arc processes; water- jet cutting machines
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Machining centres, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station transfer machines for working metal
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Lathes (including turning centres) for removing metal
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Machine-tools (including way-type unit head machines) for drilling, boring, milling, treading or tapping by removing metal, other than lathes (including turning centres) of heading 8458
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Machine-tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing metal, or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing products, other than gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines of heading 8461
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Machine-tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing, sawing, cutting-off and other machine tools working by removing metal, or cermets, not elsewhere specified or included
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Machine-tools (including presses ) for working metal by forging, hammering or diestamping; machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching or notching; presses for working metal or metal carbides, not specified above
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Other machine-tools for working metal, or cermets, without removing material
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Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for cold working glass
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Machine-tools (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials
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Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 8456 t o 8465, including work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for machinetools; tool holders for any type of tool, for working in the hand
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Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self- contained electric or non-electric motor
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Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting, other than those of heading 8515; gas- operated surface tempering machines and appliances
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Description
Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions ; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers
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Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data on to data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
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5% for Braille typewriters (8472 90 93, 8472 90 94); 18% for other office machines.
Old GST Rate
Description
Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin sorting machines, coin counting or wrapping machines, pencilsharpening machines, perforating or stapling machines)
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Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of headings 8469 to 8472
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Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand
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Machines for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes or valves or flashbulbs, in glass envelopes; machines or manufacturing or hot working glass or glassware
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Automatic goods-vending machines (for example, postage stamps, cigarette, food or beverage machines), including money changing machines
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Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
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Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco , not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
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5% for composting machines; 18% for other machines and mechanical appliances and their parts.
Old GST Rate
Description
Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
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Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases; moulding patterns; moulds for metal (other than ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics
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Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and the rmostatically controlled valves
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Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters; flywheels and pulleys, including pulley blocks; clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints)
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Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material or of two or more layers of metal; sets or assortments of gaskets and similar joints, dissimilar in composition, put up in pouches, envelopes or similar packings; mechanical seals
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Machines for additive manufacturing
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Machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays; machines and apparatus specified in note 11(c)to this chapter; parts and accessories
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Machines parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other electrical features, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
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India’s Exports
FY 2025-26₹3,23,758 Cr
8.2990% of India’s total exports
India’s Imports
FY 2025-26₹6,54,715 Cr
9.5485% of India’s total imports
Trade Balance
FY 2025-26−₹3,30,957 Cr
Surplus rank #94 of 97 chapters
At a glance
11.98%
Export CAGR
FY 2018-19 → FY 2025-26 · 8 fiscal years
#3
National Export Rank
of 97 chapters by export value, FY 2025-26
+35.20%
Peak Growth Year
FY 2021-22 · strongest single-year move
2.2×
Export Growth · 8Y
₹1,46,652.28 Cr → ₹3,23,757.82 Cr
8-year export and import data, FY 2018-19 to FY 2025-26, in ₹ Crore. Source: Ministry of Commerce & Industry, TradeStat EIDB.
Balance
−1,59,716.14
Exports
1,46,652.28 ₹ Cr
6.3577% share
— YoY
Imports
3,06,368.42 ₹ Cr
8.5237% share
— YoY
Balance
−1,59,405.96
Exports
1,47,661.29 ₹ Cr
6.6561% share
+0.69% YoY
Imports
3,07,067.25 ₹ Cr
9.1370% share
+0.23% YoY
Balance
−1,33,862.09
Exports
1,40,162.50 ₹ Cr
6.4942% share
−5.08% YoY
Imports
2,74,024.59 ₹ Cr
9.3979% share
−10.76% YoY
Balance
−1,87,617.81
Exports
1,89,496.84 ₹ Cr
6.0224% share
+35.20% YoY
Imports
3,77,114.65 ₹ Cr
8.2471% share
+37.62% YoY
Balance
−2,16,163.14
Exports
2,20,977.33 ₹ Cr
6.1032% share
+16.61% YoY
Imports
4,37,140.47 ₹ Cr
7.6028% share
+15.92% YoY
Balance
−2,26,447.35
Exports
2,48,865.80 ₹ Cr
6.8782% share
+12.62% YoY
Imports
4,75,313.15 ₹ Cr
8.4636% share
+8.73% YoY
Balance
−2,60,689.86
Exports
2,83,259.46 ₹ Cr
7.6486% share
+13.82% YoY
Imports
5,43,949.32 ₹ Cr
8.9199% share
+14.44% YoY
Balance
−3,30,956.86
Exports
3,23,757.82 ₹ Cr
8.2990% share
+14.30% YoY
Imports
6,54,714.68 ₹ Cr
9.5485% share
+20.36% YoY
CAGR · 8-Year
Exports
11.98% /yr
Imports
11.46% /yr
India's exports under HSN Chapter 84 have grown at a compound annual rate of 11.98% over 8 fiscal years, rising from ₹1,46,652.28 Crore in FY 2018-19 to ₹3,23,757.82 Crore in FY 2025-26.
In FY 2025-26, HSN Chapter 84 ranks #3 out of 97 chapters by total export value. By trade surplus, it ranks #94 of 97.
The strongest single-year export movement for HSN Chapter 84 was recorded in FY 2021-22, when exports surged by 35.20% over the prior year.
In FY 2025-26, India's imports of ₹6,54,714.68 Cr exceeded exports of ₹3,23,757.82 Cr, resulting in a trade deficit of ₹3,30,956.86 Crore — ranking #94 of 97 by surplus magnitude.
India's imports under HSN Chapter 84 have grown at 11.46% CAGR, reaching ₹6,54,714.68 Crore in FY 2025-26.