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Nuclear and space: India and United States

First country

Second country

In 2025, India sold USD 6.0 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft to United States and bought USD 16.4 million from it.

Constraints

  • BothTwo-way trade in nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft is 56 percent below its 2023 peak of USD 51.0 million.

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 States: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

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

2019: 0.4Low 0.1 / High 6.72025: 6

20190.4
20200.2
20210.2
20220.1
20235
20246.7
20256

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 States: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

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

2019: 16.9Low 0 / High 47.22025: 16.4

201916.9
20200
20210.5
202247.2
202346
202516.4

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

  • IndiaThe US backed India's entry into export control regimes and the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
  • BothIndia signed the Artemis Accords in 2023, and NASA is to train ISRO astronauts.

Constraints

  • IndiaIn 1998 the US imposed sanctions after India's nuclear tests, cutting military and economic aid.

Sources: Wikipedia: India–United States relations (revision of 16 September 2026)

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