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Fertiliser: India and China

First country

Second country

In 2025, India sold USD 2.1 million of fertilisers to China and bought USD 2.16 billion from it.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, China sold USD 2.16 billion of fertilisers, against USD 2.1 million the other way.
  • BothTwo-way trade in fertilisers has swung between USD 858 million and USD 2.69 billion since 2019.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

India's imports from China: fertilisers

USD billion · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by India

2019: 2.09Low 0.85 / High 2.692025: 2.16

20192.09
20201.67
20212.69
20222.34
20232.61
20240.85
20252.16

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

More on this relationship

Constraints

  • IndiaIndia asked China to ease export curbs on fertilisers during talks in July 2025.

Sources: Wikipedia: China–India relations (revision of 23 September 2026)

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