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Welcome to the new website of the Consulate General of India in San Francisco.

We have made every effort  to make the website user friendly. We have tried to provide the information you  are  actually  looking for, rather than displaying the information  easily available with the Consulate. Special efforts have been made to ensure that all documentary requirements for each specific service can be seen at one location.

We hope this website would also serve as a gateway to India for those who are trying to access information relating to tourism, trade, economy, etc. The relevant information has been made available through various links to important websites.

I hope you would find the website useful. However, improvements are always possible and we look forward to receiving your feedback containing comments, ideas and suggestions to make the website more user friendly and useful.

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N. Parthasarathi

 

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Indo Us Bilateral Trade

India – US Trade

     Trade and commerce form a crucial component of the rapidly expanding and multi-faceted relations between India and U.S. From a modest $ 5.6 billion in 1990, the bilateral trade in merchandise goods has increased to $ 62.9 billion in 2012 representing an impressive 1023.2% growth in a span of 22 years.

      India’s merchandise exports to the U.S. grew by 1.7% from $ 9.50 billion during the period January- March 2012 to $ 9.66 billion during the period January- March 2013.  US exports of merchandise to India grew by 8.89% from $ 4.74 billion during the period January- March 2012 to $ 5.17 billion during the period January- March 2013. India - U.S. bilateral merchandise trade stands at $ 14.83 billion during this period.

Trade during the period Jan. – Mar. 2013

i) Major items of export from India to US 

Select major items with their percentage shares, are given below.

a) Textiles (17.7%)
b) Precious stones & metals (21.8%)

c) Pharmaceutical products (11.5 %)

d) Mineral Fuel, Oil (6.4%)

e) Organic chemicals (6.1%)

f)  Machinery (4.7%)

g) Iron & Steel Products  (3.6%)

h) Electrical Machinery (3.4%)

ii) Major items of export from US to India 

Select major items with their percentage shares, are given below

a) Precious stones & metals (28.2%)

b) Machinery (12.8%)

c) Optical instruments & equipment (6.3%)

d) Electrical machinery (6.2%)

e) Mineral Fuel, Oil etc (5.6)

f) Aircraft, spacecraft, Parts (5.4%)

g) Organic chemicals (4.4%)

h)  Miscellaneous Chemical Products (4.0%)  

Trends with respect to the major items of bilateral trade during the past two years are as follows. 

 

India’s exports to US

·         Cut and polished diamonds and jewelry is a major item of India’s exports to the US, accounting for 17.7%. Exports of this item fell from $ 8.01 billion in 2011 to $ 7.16 billion in 2012, a decrease of 10.6%. 

·         Textiles exports accounted for 15.3% of India’s exports to the US in 2012. Textile exports fell from $ 6.28 billion in 2011 to $ 6.20 billion in 2012, a decrease of 1.29%. 

·         Exports of pharmaceutical products grew from $ 3.21 billion in 2011 to $ 4.23 billion in 2012, an increase of 31.5%.

·         Exports of Lac, Gums, and resins grew by 240% from $1.04billion to $ 3.52 billion in 2012.

·         Exports of mineral fuel, oil grew from $ 3.19 billion in 2011 to $ 3.26 billion in 2012, an increase of 2.3%.

·         Exports of organic chemicals grew by 9.9% from $ 1.98 billion in 2011 to $ 2.18 billion in 2012.

US exports to India

·         Exports of precious stones and metals which accounted for 26.1% of exports from US to India grew by 26.3% to reach $ 5.84 billion in 2012 from $ 4.62 billion in 2011.

·         Machinery exports fell by 8.7% from $ 2.91 billion in 2011 to $ 2.66 billion in 2012.

·         Exports of electrical machinery fell by 8.1% from $ 1.53 billion in 2011 to $1.41 billion in 2012.

·         Exports of Optical, Photo, Surgical instruments grew by 16.4% from $ 1.18 billion to $ 1.38 billion in 2012.

·         Exports of aircraft, aviation machinery and parts, grew by 78.3% to $ 1.37 billion in 2012 from $0.77 billion in 2011.

During the year 2007, the basket of US imports to India included exceptionally large imports of aircraft /parts, which resulted in a leap in the growth rate of US exports to 54.7%. With this component excluded, the growth rates of US exports in 2007 and 2008 are 37.5% and 39.9% respectively.


Contact Details

General Fax                       :         415-668-2057

For all other trade general related queries

Mr. Purshottam Bhatnagar
Email                                      : com[at]cgisf[dot]org
Telephone                                : 415-668-0662 x 162

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Consul (Commerce)             : Dr.  K.J. Srinivasa
E-mail                                  : sfcpic[at]cgisf[dot]org


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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