Top goods exported from India: Engineering products, drugs, coffee, and more

Electronics goods from India saw the highest growth rate in exports in fiscal 2024-2025, recent government data showed. The country exported $38.58 billion of electronics in the last financial year, up 32.46 per cent year-on-year.

However, the largest share of exports were engineering goods, accounting for 26.67 per cent of the total $437.42 billion in exports in the fiscal. The agriculture sector was the second biggest, amounting to 11.85 per cent of all exports.

Despite posting the highest growth in exports, electronics amounted to just 8.82 per cent of the total exports. Pharmaceuticals and medical drugs accounted for 6.96 per cent.

Together, these four—agriculture, pharma, electronics, and engineering goods—made up more than 50 per cent of the country’s merchandise exports in FY2024-2025.

For electronics, the growth was attributed to doubling the exports in computer hardware and peripherals—up 101 per cent year-on-year to $1.4 billion. Most of the electronics went to the UAE, the US, the Netherlands, the UK, and Italy.

India exported $116.67 billion in engineering goods, up 6.74 per cent year-on-year, heading mainly to the US, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and Germany.

Pharma exports spiked 9.4 per cent to $30.47 billion. India’s drugs and pharmaceuticals are in demand around the world, with exports now heading to more than 200 countries.

Agriculture and their allied exports rose by 7.36 per cent to $51.86 billion in the last fiscal, helped by rising demand for spices, coffee, tea, tobacco, rice, fruits and vegetables, and marine products. Coffee, alone, made up $1.81 billion in exports for the year, with Karnataka and Kerala producing the most and varied coffee varieties. Last fiscal, India exported marine products of $7.2 billion to 130 countries.

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