Lok Sabha Question No. 531 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-01
Subject: Import from China
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: Kani K. Navas

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 531 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01 st  DECEMBER, 2021

## IMPORT FROM CHINA

## 531. SHRI K. NAVASKANI:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ( वािण᭔य एवं उ᳒ोग मंᮢी ) be pleased to state:

- (a) the year wise details of imports from China from FY 2014-15 to FY 2021-22;
- (b) the year wise details of exports to China from FY 2014-15 to FY 2021-22;
- (c) whether imports from China have increased during the last seven years;
- (d) if so, the details and reasons thereof;
- (e) whether the exports to China have declined in the last six years;
- (f) if so, the details and the reasons thereof; and
- (g) the steps being taken by the government to increase exports and decrease imports with regard to China?

## ANSWER

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THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL)

(a)to b): The trade data of India's exports to and imports from China from FY 2014-15 to FY 2021-22 is as under:

(Values in USD Billion)

|               |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |   2021-22 (Apr-Sept) |
|---------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|----------------------|
| Import        |     60.41 |     61.71 |     61.28 |     76.38 |     70.32 |     65.26 |     65.21 |                42.33 |
| Export        |     11.96 |      9.01 |     10.17 |     13.33 |     16.75 |     16.61 |     21.19 |                12.26 |
| Total trade   |     72.37 |     70.72 |     71.45 |     89.71 |     87.07 |     81.87 |     86.4  |                54.59 |
| Trade deficit |     48.45 |     52.7  |     51.11 |     63.05 |     53.57 |     48.65 |     44.02 |                30.07 |

(Source: DGCIS)

(c) to d): The imports from China have   increased from USD 60.41 billion in 2014-15 to USD 65.21 billion in 2020-21, exhibiting an increase of 7.94% over 6 years. However, the imports were static between 2019-20 & 2020-21 . The major items of import from China are products such as telecom instruments, computer hardware and peripherals, fertilizers,  electronic components/ instruments, project goods, organic chemicals, drug intermediates, consumer electronics, electrical machinery etc. Many of these imported items are used for meeting the demand of fast expanding sectors like telecom  and  power  in  India.  Some  of  our  imports  from  China  like  the  Active  Pharmaceutical Ingredients  (APIs)  and  drug  formulations  provide  the  Indian  pharma  industry  raw  material  for producing finished goods which are also exported out of India. The details of India's imports from China, principal commodity wise and value wise during the last seven years and the current year is given in Annexure-I.

(e) to (f): The exports from India to China have increased from USD 11.96 billion in 2014-15 to USD 21.19 billion in 2020-21, exhibiting an increase of 77.17% in 6 years.

(g)  The Government of India has made sustained efforts to achieve a more balanced trade with China,  including  bilateral  engagements  to  address  the  non-tariff barriers  on  Indian  exports  to China. The Government has also launched schemes such as Production Linked Incentive Schemes (PLIs)  to  promote  domestic  manufacturing  capacities  in  critical  sectors  such  as  Key  Starting Materials/Drug Intermediates, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients apart from electronic components & mobiles, white  goods  (ACs  and  LEDs),  Specialty  Steel, Drones  and  Drone  Components  etc.  These schemes  will  promote  domestic  manufacturing  capacities  and  attract  investment  and reduce dependency on imports from China.

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## Annexure-I

The details of India's imports of major commodity groups from China from FY 2014-15 to FY 2020-21 and 2021-22 (till September 2021) is as follows:

|       |                                            | IMPORT FROM CHINA IN MILLION USD   | IMPORT FROM CHINA IN MILLION USD   | IMPORT FROM CHINA IN MILLION USD   | IMPORT FROM CHINA IN MILLION USD   | IMPORT FROM CHINA IN MILLION USD   | IMPORT FROM CHINA IN MILLION USD   | IMPORT FROM CHINA IN MILLION USD   | IMPORT FROM CHINA IN MILLION USD   | IMPORT FROM CHINA IN MILLION USD   |
|-------|--------------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| SL NO | MAJOR COMMODITY GROUPS                     | 2014-15                            | 2015-16                            | 2016-17                            | 2017-18                            | 2018-19                            | 2019-20                            | 2020-21                            | 2020-21 (APR-SEP)                  | 2021-22 (APR-SEP)                  |
| 1     | COTTONRAW AND WASTE                        | 0.01                               | 0.01                               | 0.05                               | 0.10                               | 0.37                               | 8.07                               | 0.02                               | 0.00                               | 0.00                               |
| 2     | VEGETABLE OIL                              | 0.25                               | 0.40                               | 0.37                               | 0.63                               | 0.46                               | 0.56                               | 0.22                               | 0.07                               | 0.20                               |
| 3     | PULSES                                     | 72.34                              | 61.44                              | 64.81                              | 58.11                              | 47.86                              | 51.58                              | 46.36                              | 24.92                              | 18.13                              |
| 4     | FRUITS AND VEGETABLES                      | 89.48                              | 74.31                              | 176.95                             | 85.13                              | 33.27                              | 48.41                              | 36.69                              | 13.21                              | 15.93                              |
| 5     | PULP AND WASTE PAPER                       | 16.42                              | 14.98                              | 19.65                              | 17.95                              | 21.00                              | 24.34                              | 20.84                              | 10.74                              | 14.00                              |
| 6     | TEXTILE YARN FABRIC, MADEUP ARTICLES       | 849.27                             | 869.65                             | 745.28                             | 992.62                             | 923.52                             | 895.03                             | 700.60                             | 228.92                             | 406.01                             |
| 7     | FERTILISERS, CRUDE ANDMA NUFACTURED        | 3154.73                            | 3268.09                            | 1250.68                            | 1072.58                            | 2053.29                            | 1820.93                            | 1551.23                            | 704.83                             | 1735.00                            |
| 8     | SULPHUR AND UNROASTED I RON PYRTS          | 0.11                               | 0.13                               | 0.10                               | 0.24                               | 0.27                               | 0.21                               | 0.13                               | 0.05                               | 0.06                               |
| 9     | METALIFERROUSORESAND OTHER MINERALS        | 263.55                             | 213.28                             | 243.13                             | 272.96                             | 476.15                             | 261.54                             | 238.42                             | 93.36                              | 169.98                             |
| 10    | COAL, COKE AND BRIQUETTES, ETC.            | 423.63                             | 364.40                             | 402.79                             | 642.52                             | 698.89                             | 160.32                             | 20.71                              | 9.63                               | 180.55                             |
| 11    | PETROLEUM, CRUDE AND PRODUCTS              | 315.82                             | 306.34                             | 213.11                             | 313.84                             | 302.27                             | 340.44                             | 183.63                             | 94.44                              | 212.97                             |
| 12    | WOOD AND WOOD PRODUCTS                     | 680.31                             | 637.41                             | 697.74                             | 932.58                             | 803.99                             | 784.43                             | 525.75                             | 209.13                             | 316.12                             |
| 13    | LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS               | 211.94                             | 223.47                             | 224.32                             | 265.67                             | 256.90                             | 236.49                             | 114.30                             | 37.57                              | 72.38                              |
| 14    | ORGANIC AND INORGANIC C HEMICALS           | 4079.65                            | 3752.95                            | 3562.40                            | 4750.20                            | 5781.19                            | 5197.64                            | 5693.70                            | 2733.36                            | 4040.77                            |
| 15    | DYEING/TANNING/ COLOURING MTRLS.           | 631.54                             | 554.58                             | 560.10                             | 751.13                             | 759.89                             | 779.54                             | 775.01                             | 301.96                             | 496.01                             |
| 16    | ARTIFICIAL RESINS, PLASTIC MATERIALS, ETC. | 2085.81                            | 2080.03                            | 2270.30                            | 2945.48                            | 3227.06                            | 3165.79                            | 2741.78                            | 970.36                             | 2133.03                            |
| 17    | CHEMICAL MATERIALAND P RODUCTS             | 1609.39                            | 1477.09                            | 1658.57                            | 2230.65                            | 2592.04                            | 2467.49                            | 2721.34                            | 1305.61                            | 1716.11                            |
| 18    | NEWSPRINT                                  | 26.19                              | 0.15                               | 0.00                               | 0.01                               |                                    | 0.00                               | 0.01                               |                                    |                                    |
| 19    | PEARLS, PRECIOUS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES  | 31.19                              | 45.11                              | 45.76                              | 107.61                             | 64.11                              | 61.24                              | 45.20                              | 11.97                              | 31.45                              |
| 20    | IRON AND STEEL                             | 4101.53                            | 3541.11                            | 2576.56                            | 3090.72                            | 3153.45                            | 2706.35                            | 2208.84                            | 976.34                             | 1356.10                            |
| 21    | NON-FERROUS METALS                         | 1606.37                            | 1352.35                            | 1363.75                            | 1657.52                            | 2131.10                            | 1855.26                            | 1460.08                            | 548.76                             | 903.85                             |
| 22    | MACHINE TOOLS                              | 645.33                             | 645.45                             | 727.52                             | 1014.96                            | 1142.81                            | 1026.74                            | 1109.88                            | 388.19                             | 711.73                             |
| 23    | MACHINERY, ELECTRICAL AND NON-ELECTRICAL   | 7390.79                            | 8045.51                            | 8395.95                            | 10354.11                           | 11135.68                           | 10865.44                           | 10220.49                           | 3889.29                            | 5839.41                            |
| 24    | TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT                        | 3029.43                            | 3173.47                            | 3653.34                            | 3758.57                            | 2721.66                            | 2470.58                            | 2374.43                            | 886.13                             | 1384.86                            |
| 25    | PROJECT GOODS                              | 1449.33                            | 994.11                             | 763.00                             | 609.54                             | 553.28                             | 438.28                             | 347.92                             | 178.94                             | 101.59                             |

| 26                    | PROFESSIONAL INSTRUMENT, OPTICAL GOODS, ETC.   |   469.13 |   477.83 |   525.70 |   807.30 |   815.93 |   758.15 | 930.46   | 421.25   | 955.89   |
|-----------------------|------------------------------------------------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|
| 27                    | ELECTRONIC GOODS                               | 19727    | 22678.7  | 24731.2  | 31975.2  | 22737.5  | 21374.1  | 23936.27 | 10144.80 | 15291.87 |
| 28                    | MEDCNL. AND PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS            |  2280.57 |  2337.53 |  2018.78 |  2251.84 |  2630.56 |  2562.85 | 2903.41  | 1432.51  | 1764.07  |
| 29                    | GOLD                                           |    35.7  |    24.18 |    28.37 |    76.53 |    12.59 |     0    |          |          |          |
| 30                    | SILVER                                         |  1141.02 |   384.51 |   440.69 |   326.31 |   321.53 |    46.26 | 51.76    | 47.88    | 4.27     |
| 31                    | OTHERS                                         |  3995.33 |  4109.44 |  3922.02 |  5018.1  |  4921.05 |  4852.68 | 4252.76  | 1710.90  | 2461.44  |
| TOTALIMPORTFROM CHINA | TOTALIMPORTFROM CHINA                          | 60413.2  | 61707.9  | 61283    | 76380.7  | 70319.6  | 65260.8  | 65212.25 | 27375.10 | 42333.77 |

(Source: DGCIS)

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