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Technology: India and United Arab Emirates

First country

Second country

In 2025, India sold USD 5.26 billion of electrical and electronic equipment to United Arab Emirates and bought USD 123 million from it.

Benefits

  • BothTwo-way trade in electrical and electronic equipment grew 85 percent, from USD 2.90 billion in 2019 to USD 5.38 billion in 2025.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, India sold USD 5.26 billion of electrical and electronic equipment, against USD 123 million the other way.

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 exports to United Arab Emirates: electrical and electronic equipment

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

2019: 2.63Low 1.62 / High 5.262025: 5.26

20192.63
20201.62
20212.61
20223.49
20233.62
20243.5
20255.26

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

India's imports from United Arab Emirates: electrical and electronic equipment

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

2019: 270.6Low 111.3 / High 835.42025: 123.3

2019270.6
2020220.5
2021323
2022835.4
2023168.9
2024111.3
2025123.3

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

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

More on this relationship

Benefits

  • BothIn May 2026 G42, MBZUAI and C-DAC exchanged a term sheet for an 8-exaflop supercomputing cluster in India.
  • BothA 2022 joint statement proposed the first IIT campus overseas.

Sources: Wikipedia: India–United Arab Emirates relations (revision of 24 September 2026)