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Sector Knowledge

Industries

Twenty sectors where India and Europe already trade heavily, and the ones where the trade is only now beginning.

Each page is a plain explanation of the sector on both sides: how the goods and services actually move, what a company has to clear to operate, and what is changing. Written as background reading, not as a pitch.

What you'll find on every sector page

The sector on both sides

Size, structure and who the significant players are in India and in Europe.

How the trade moves

What travels in each direction, at what volume, and the reasons it does.

The regulatory position

Licensing, certification and standards a company has to clear on each side.

What is changing

Tariffs, the FTA, new rules, and where the sector looks to be heading next.

Established Corridors

Where India and Europe have traded for decades.

Twelve sectors

Mature flows with deep supply chains on both sides. The questions here are rarely whether a market exists; they are about cost, compliance, and who you work with.

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Chemicals & specialty chemicals

The largest industrial flow in either direction: dyes, intermediates and agrochemicals moving west, specialty formulations and process technology moving east.

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India → Europe Coming soon

Pharmaceuticals & life sciences

India supplies a large share of Europe's generic medicines. Europe supplies much of the equipment, excipients and regulatory framework behind them.

Europe → India

Machinery & industrial equipment

European capital equipment has been sold into Indian factories for generations. Increasingly it is also being built there.

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Both ↔ ways

Automotive & components

Nearly every European tier-one has an Indian plant, and Indian component makers now supply European assembly lines directly.

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India → Europe Coming soon

Metals & engineering goods

Castings, forgings, fasteners and fabricated steel, one of India's oldest export lines into European industry and one of the most price-sensitive.

India → Europe

Textiles & apparel

A long-established export base now reshaping itself around European sustainability, traceability and due-diligence requirements.

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Agriculture & agri-inputs

Seeds, spices, grains and agricultural inputs. European breeding and technology meets Indian volume, and both directions are active.

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Both ↔ ways

Food & beverage processing

European processing lines and cold chain going in; processed foods, ingredients and ready meals coming out. Regulated heavily at both ends.

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India → Europe Coming soon

Leather, footwear & accessories

Among India's oldest European export categories, and now among the most exposed to sustainability scrutiny and shifting buyer expectations.

Both ↔ ways Coming soon

Construction materials & infrastructure

Cement, tiles, sanitaryware and fittings moving west; European engineering, design and equipment feeding India's infrastructure build-out.

India → Europe Coming soon

IT services & technology

India's largest services export to Europe, and the sector that first made working across this corridor feel ordinary rather than exotic.

Both ↔ ways Coming soon

Logistics & shipping

Freight, warehousing, customs and the trade corridors themselves, the layer every other sector on this page quietly depends on.

Emerging Corridors

Where the trade is only now starting to move.

Eight sectors

Newer flows, mostly driven by policy on one side or the other: subsidy programmes, climate rules, security requirements. Less established, faster moving, and harder to get reliable information about.

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Renewable energy & green hydrogen

Solar manufacturing, wind components and green hydrogen offtake. The fastest-moving policy area on both sides, and the most crowded with incentives.

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Europe → India Coming soon

Electric mobility & batteries

Cell manufacturing, charging infrastructure and a battery supply chain being assembled in India almost from scratch, largely with imported technology.

Europe → India Coming soon

Semiconductors & electronics

India's fabrication and assembly push is new, heavily subsidised, and actively courting European equipment makers and design houses.

Europe → India Coming soon

Global Capability Centres

European mid-sized companies are now doing what multinationals did a decade ago: building their own engineering, finance and R&D centres in India.

Both ↔ ways Coming soon

Defence & aerospace

Offset obligations and joint-venture requirements make this the corridor's most structurally complex sector, and one of its fastest-opening.

Both ↔ ways Coming soon

Medical devices & diagnostics

Local manufacturing incentives on one side and stricter EU device regulation on the other are reshaping who makes what, and where.

Europe → India Coming soon

Water, waste & circular economy

European treatment technology meeting India's municipal and industrial build-out. A market that barely existed as a corridor five years ago.

Both ↔ ways Coming soon

Space & satellite services

India's newly opened private space sector is drawing European component makers, launch customers and data buyers into a market that was closed until recently.