| (US $ Million) |
| Commodity / Year | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 1. Cotton Raw & Waste | 221.0 | 453.4 | 392.7 | 507.3 | 392.0 | 944.9 |
| 2. Vegetable Oil | 8119.1 | 9844.1 | 9395.4 | 10612.7 | 10490.0 | 10890.9 |
| 3. Pulses | 1971.6 | 2452.6 | 2114.4 | 2790.6 | 3913.2 | 4252.7 |
| 4. Fruits & vegetables | 1054.5 | 1244.8 | 1378.9 | 1665.3 | 1850.2 | 1776.6 |
| 5. Pulp and Waste paper | 720.3 | 745.6 | 768.2 | 945.5 | 956.9 | 974.7 |
| 6. Textile yarn Fabric, made-up articles | 1430.5 | 1441.5 | 1505.0 | 1691.1 | 1714.4 | 1500.8 |
| 7. Fertilisers, Crude & manufactured | 11124.3 | 8770.9 | 6306.8 | 7408.0 | 8019.5 | 5028.4 |
| 8. Sulphur & Unroasted Iron Pyrites | 476.9 | 319.6 | 182.6 | 286.2 | 217.2 | 131.1 |
| 9. Metaliferrous ores & other minerals | 8112.7 | 9143.7 | 8395.2 | 9304.5 | 7266.8 | 6168.4 |
| 10. Coal, Coke & Briquettes, etc. | 17443.9 | 17007.7 | 16384.8 | 17811.6 | 13640.7 | 15715.2 |
| 11. Petroleum, Crude & products | 154967.6 | 164040.6 | 164770.3 | 138325.5 | 82944.5 | 86865.7 |
| 12. Wood & Wood products | 5024.3 | 5083.1 | 5120.7 | 5464.7 | 5047.0 | 4892.9 |
| 13. Leather & leather products | 719.5 | 739.9 | 823.7 | 1005.5 | 968.2 | 936.0 |
| 14. Organic & Inorganic Chemicals | 16717.5 | 16787.0 | 17464.5 | 18561.9 | 16548.6 | 16578.4 |
| 15. Dyeing/tanning/colouring mtrls. | 2108.8 | 2171.0 | 2419.0 | 2443.0 | 2245.2 | 2282.0 |
| 16. Artificial resins, plastic materials, etc. | 8834.9 | 9989.6 | 10456.0 | 12056.6 | 11772.1 | 11961.1 |
| 17. Chemical material & products | 4549.4 | 4861.5 | 4877.9 | 5303.0 | 5150.9 | 5366.5 |
| 18. Newsprint | 1030.4 | 804.0 | 891.8 | 838.8 | 804.9 | 850.3 |
| 19. Pearls, precious & Semi-precious stones | 28039.6 | 22637.1 | 23849.3 | 22564.6 | 20065.6 | 23848.8 |
| 20. Iron & Steel | 18254.7 | 17700.8 | 12658.6 | 16314.5 | 14962.9 | 11689.9 |
| 21. Non-ferrous metals | 8407.2 | 9038.1 | 8856.8 | 10748.1 | 9712.6 | 9871.7 |
| 22. Machine tools | 3977.2 | 3720.7 | 3057.5 | 3137.1 | 2760.3 | 3035.9 |
| 23. Machinery, electrical & non-electrical | 33099.2 | 30764.5 | 27091.4 | 28002.0 | 29482.7 | 28662.5 |
| 24. Transport equipment | 18724.7 | 21288.9 | 19323.9 | 18402.8 | 18251.4 | 21224.4 |
| 25. Project goods | 8810.2 | 6553.7 | 4535.8 | 3632.8 | 2755.9 | 2106.3 |
| 26. Professional instrument, Optical goods, etc. | 3593.6 | 3756.1 | 3597.5 | 3714.8 | 3623.0 | 3848.8 |
| 27. Electronic goods | 34081.1 | 32906.2 | 32378.4 | 36870.9 | 40032.0 | 41941.0 |
| 28. Medcnl. & Pharmaceutical products | 5184.0 | 5465.2 | 5233.1 | 5431.7 | 5433.8 | 4997.6 |
| 29. Gold | 56319.8 | 53694.8 | 27477.3 | 34453.0 | 31692.7 | 27490.4 |
| 30. Silver | 5155.0 | 1984.5 | 4458.3 | 4528.1 | 3732.5 | 1838.2 |
| 31. Other Commodities | 21046.3 | 25325.8 | 24048.1 | 23211.4 | 24559.0 | 25068.9 |
| Total Imports | 489319.5 | 490736.7 | 450213.7 | 448033.4 | 381006.6 | 382740.9 |
Note : Data for 2016-17 are provisional and data for 2015-16 are revised.
Also see notes on Tables.
Source : Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics. |