Data story No. 6 · DGCIS, Ministry of Commerce

Who inside India
does the exporting?

Trade data: UN Comtrade, calendar year 2025 (series 2016–2025). State data: DGCIS / NIRYAT, Q4 FY2025-26 (January–March 2026) and FY 2024-25 (April 2024 – March 2025). Page built 27 July 2026.

India’s exports are startlingly concentrated: a handful of states — and even a handful of districts — carry the whole country. Here is the map, from Gujarat’s refineries to Noida’s phone factories.

24%Gujarat’s share of India’s exports, Q4 FY2025-26
54%Shipped by just three states, Q4 FY2025-26
36%Shipped by just ten districts, Q4 FY2025-26
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The full-year league table

Merchandise exports, FY 2024-25 (April 2024 – March 2025) — the eight biggest exporter states. This is the most recent full year for which the Ministry has published a complete state league table; FY 2025-26 annual state figures were not available when this page was last updated.

In FY 2024-25 Gujarat shipped $116.3 bn — more than Maharashtra ($65.9 bn) and Karnataka ($30.5 bn) combined. The concentration persists in the latest quarter: in Q4 FY2025-26 Gujarat was 24.1% of India’s exports, and mineral fuels were 33.96% of what the state shipped, most of that leaving through the Jamnagar refinery complex.

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Every state and union territory

All 36, ranked — FY 2022-23 (April 2022 – March 2023), the most recent year for which the Ministry publishes complete coverage of every state and UT.

The long tail is stark: the eight North-Eastern states together export less than Goa alone. Landlocked states without mineral or industrial bases barely register — the geography of ports is the geography of trade.

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The ten districts that carry India

Top exporting districts, Q4 FY2025-26 (January–March 2026) — together 35.7% of everything India shipped that quarter.

Four of the ten are in Gujarat, three in Maharashtra; Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh have one each. Noida (Gautam Buddha Nagar) is Uttar Pradesh’s entry — see what each state government does for its exporters on the explainers page. The concentration is structural, though the tail of the list does move: Bharuch entered the top ten in this review, displacing Kachchh.

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What does each big state ship?

The top five commodity groups per state (share of the state’s exports, Q4 FY2025-26). Click a chip to open that product’s global picture.

Check any other state

Pick any of the 36 states and union territories for its export profile — DGCIS publishes the full commodity breakdown only for the top five, so smaller states show what is officially reported.

What this card can and cannot show. Official data thins out below the biggest states, so this card shows each tier honestly rather than guessing: the top 5 states get their full five-commodity breakdown with percentage shares (DGCIS publishes this only for them); the top 10 states also get their Q4 FY2025-26 export value (that review names only the top ten individually and aggregates the rest); every other state and UT shows its full-year export value and officially recorded leading export from FY 2022-23 — the most recent year with complete coverage of all 36. All figures are merchandise (goods) only, from the Ministry of Commerce (DGCIS/NIRYAT) — not UN Comtrade, which has no state-level data. Nothing on this card is estimated or extrapolated.

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The quarterly snapshot

Merchandise exports by state, Q4 FY2025-26 (January–March 2026) — a single quarter, not an annual rate. This is the most recent DGCIS review we have processed, which is not necessarily the most recent one published.

Read this one with care. A quarter is a short window: monsoon shipping, festival timing and a single large consignment can all move a state several places. The annual table above is the reliable ranking. This card covers January–March 2026 — the most recent quarterly review we have read and transcribed. DGCIS may since have published a later one; check the DGCIS listing if currency matters to you. Quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year growth per state are in the CSV rather than on the chart, because those percentages are the most volatile numbers on this site.

About this data

Unlike the rest of this site, state-level trade does not come from UN Comtrade (which only has national data). This page uses the DGCIS Quarterly Review of Merchandise Foreign Trade (Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India) — quarterly and district figures from the January–March 2026 review (released June 2026) — and full-year state figures from the Ministry’s NIRYAT portal. Merchandise (goods) only; services excluded throughout. These figures are updated by hand when DGCIS publishes a new quarterly review — they are not refreshed by scripts/fetch_data.py.

How to cite this page. ValueChain. (2025). India’s export states and districts. https://valuechain.international/states.html

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