The document outlines India's major import and export activities, highlighting the top ten exporters in various sectors such as IT, pharmaceuticals, and gold jewelry. It emphasizes that a significant portion of revenue for these exporters comes from international sales, with companies like Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services predominantly relying on foreign markets. Additionally, it details India's primary import items, with crude petroleum being the largest, followed by gold and electronic goods, and identifies China as the top source for these imports.

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SUMAN SUTRADHAR
Top 10 import and export of India

2. TOP TEN EXPORTERS OF INDIA
Major export items of India :-
Live animals, milk products, wheat, rice, coffee, tea,
spices, cumin seed, tamarind powder, sesame seed,
sugar, henna, herbal extract, medicines, fertilizers,
chemicals, salt, iron ores, minerals, books, leather
products, textile, dyes and pigments, home
furnishing, footwear, brass items, Aluminium items,
sanitary wear, ceramic, glassware, flanges, fittings,
embroidered and Zari items, pipe and pipe fittings,
handicraft, cables, medical disposables, laboratory
equipments, surgical equipments, sports goods,
wooden furniture and various other engineering and
electrical products

3. 1. ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE
Oracle Financial Services Software Limited (OFSSL) is a world leader in
providing IT solutions to the financial services industry. The company has a large
exposure to foreign financial companies which contribute 96 per cent of the
revenue to the company. The company addresses the entire financial services
space through a comprehensive portfolio of products, IT services, consulting and
knowledge process outsourcing services with an experience of delivering value-
based IT solutions to over 810 financial institutions across 130 countries. The
company also has strong alliance and/or implementation relationships with
industry leaders such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Intel.
2. Opto Circuits (India)
Opto Circuits (India) is a technology-based electronics company engaged in
design, development, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of medical
electronic devices and medical monitoring products. Opto Circuits offers
technological advanced medical devices that are proprietary in nature, improve
patient safety and care and reduce healthcare costs. It offers a broad range of
more than 100 medical devices across 17 clinical categories spread over 12
medical fields. It has sales in 56 countries and operations in India, Germany and
the US. Of its total sales, around 95 per cent of the revenue comes from exports
while the remaining comes from the domestic markets.

4. 3. INFOSYS
Infosys, the second-largest software making company, generates 94 per cent of
the revenue through exports. The major exporting countries are the US (63.9 per
cent) and Europe (21.9 per cent) that together generates almost 85 per cent of
the export revenues while the rest comes from India (2.2 per cent) and some
other countries. The company’s revenue comes from providing various IT
products and services catering to sectors such as BFSI, manufacturing, retail,
life science, energy and communication services.
4. TCS
Tata Consultancy Services, part of the Tata Group that is one of India’s
largest industrial conglomerates and most respected brands, is an IT
services, business solutions and outsourcing organisation that delivers
real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty that no
other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led integrated portfolio of
IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network
Delivery Model™ (GNDM™), recognised as the benchmark of
excellence in software development. Of its total sales, 91 per cent of the
revenue comes from exports while the remaining is derived from the
domestic markets

5. 5. DIVI’S LAB
Divi’s Laboratories is engaged in the manufacture of generic active
pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), custom synthesis of active ingredients and
other specialty chemicals such as peptides and nutraceuticals. The company
has three multi-purpose manufacturing facilities with a total reactor capacity of
4,500 cubic meters and all support infrastructure such as utilities, environment
management and safety systems. The company in a matter of short time has
expanded its breadth of operations to provide complete turnkey solutions to the
domestic Indian pharmaceutical industry. Of its total sales, more than 90 per
cent of the revenue comes from exports while the remaining comes from the
domestic markets.
6. Rajesh Exports
Rajesh Exports Limited (REL) is the largest gold jewellery manufacturer in the
world and also the country’s largest exporter of gold jewellery with a market
share of around 40 per cent. Shubh Jewellers is the retail brand of the company.
Of the total sales, around 85 per cent of the revenue comes from exports while
the remaining is from the domestic markets. REL exports plain gold jewellery
and studded gold jewellery mainly to the US, UK, Singapore and the UAE. It is
also the only Indian company to be recognized by the Government of India as a
‘Five Star Export House’ in the field of gold jewellery.

6. 7. TECH MAHINDRA
Tech Mahindra provides information technology (IT) services to the
telecommunications industry worldwide. Tech Mahindra, with 84.75 per
cent exports of its sales in FY11, arrives at number seven in our list. A
majority of its stake is owned by Mahindra & Mahindra Limited in
partnership with British Telecommunications Plc. Tech Mahindra serves
telecom service providers, equipment manufacturers, software vendors
and systems integrators. The company recently completed the merger of
Mahindra Satyam with itself. This merger has made Tech Mahindra the
sixth-largest IT service provider with topline of Rs 5,490 crore and a
workforce of 75,000.
8. Aban Offshore
Aban Offshore provides drilling and oil field services for the offshore
exploration and production of hydrocarbons to the oil industry in India
and internationally. The company is also involved in wind power
generation activities. It owns and operates 15 jack-up offshore drilling
rigs, two drill ships, one floating production platform and one jack-up rig
and a drill ship on bareboat charter. It also operates 165 wind energy
generators. The company earned around 84.39 per cent of its revenues
from exports in FY11, making it the eighth in the list. This takes the total
export sales to above Rs 1,004 crore.

7. 9. SESA GOA
Goa-based Sesa Goa is India’s largest private producer and exporter of
iron ore with operations in Karnataka too. The company produces 18.8
MT of iron ore and receives 80 per cent of its revenue from exports and
the rest through domestic sale. At present the company seems to be
facing severe problems due to the ban on iron ore mining in Karnataka
and the increase in export duty. The iron ore mining ban in Karnataka
has stopped the company from producing iron ore and the concerns
have now shifted to the Goa mines as an appointed commission has
submitted a report with regards to illegal mining taking place in Goa.
Sesa Goa has a major mining operation in Goa that almost contributed
80 per cent of the total production of the company in FY11.
10. Dr. Reddy’s Lab
Dr. Reddy’s Lab was established in 1984 and is an integrated global
pharmaceutical company, committed to providing affordable and
innovative medicines for healthier lives. It operates in three segments
viz. pharmaceuticals and active ingredients (PSAI), global generics and
proprietary products. Their major markets include India, USA, Russia
and CIS, Germany, the UK, Venezuela, South Africa, Romania and New
Zealand. Of the total sales, around 72 per cent of the revenue comes
from exports while the remaining from the domestic markets.

8. MAJOR IMPORT ITEMS OF INDIA :-
The rising expenditures of the middle income sections of
the society have resulted in the imports of the country.
The major items of imports are:
Cereals and preparations, Fertilizers, Edible Oil, Sugar,
Pulp and waste paper, Paper, Newsprint, Crude rubber,
Non-ferrous Metals, Metalliferrous ores and metal scrap,
Iron and Steel, Crude Petroleum and petroleum products,
Pearls, Precious and Semi-Precious stones, Machinery,
Project Goods, Pulses, Coal and its derivatives, Non-
metallic, Organic & Inorganic chemicals, Dyeing, tanning
material, Medicinal products and Pharma products,
Artificial resins, yarn & fabrics(silk, cotton, wool),
electronic goods, wood and wood products, gold and
silver, essential oils, computer software, etc

9. IMPORTS
 Crude petroleum is India's biggest import with
$155bn spent on it in 2012. Imports of gold and
silver amounted to $62bn and electronic goods
and pearls and precious stones are also top
import items for the country.
 India's top import source is China followed by
the UAE, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia. The UK
came in at 21st place in 2011-12 with India
importing a total of $7.7bn. In the six months
recorded so far for 2012-13, the UK has
dropped a place and has a 1.4% share of the
India's import sources