UAE still tops for India’s electronics exports

The export of electronics goods to the UAE has increased from $1.442B in 2018-19 to $2.44B in 2019-20, registering a growth of 69% Kamal Vachani, honourary regional director in the Middle East at the ESC

dubai — India posted a 34 per cent growth in its export of electronics goods and components during 2019-20, with the Middle East and the UAE maintaining their status as the top destinations, and underscoring the high priority the government has placed on the sector considered critical to its economic programmes.

A release from the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) on Thursday showed that the year-on-year growth translated to a value of $11.283 billion, up from the $8.432 billion posted in 2018-19.

Telecom equipment was the top contributor with $4.8 billion, followed by electronic instruments, medical and office equipment ($3.059 billion), electronic components ($2.565 billion), consumer electronics ($513 million) and IT hardware ($346 million). The export of electronics goods from India to the Middle East during 2019-20 is estimated to be $3.076 billion, which is 27.26 per cent of India’s total electronics exports.

“The export of electronics goods to the UAE has increased from $1.442 billion estimated in 201819 to $2.44 billion in 2019-20, registering a growth of 69 per cent. Telecom equipment, mainly mobile phones, is the largest item of export to the UAE during 201819 and 2019-20,” Kamal Vachani, the ESC’s honourary regional director in the Middle East, said in the statement.

India has made the electronics hardware manufacturing sector a priority, being one of the important pillars of the government’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ programmes.

India has emerged as the secondlargest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world in 2019. Over 200 units are manufacturing cellular mobile phones and parts/ components in the country, up from only two units in 2014.

The domestic demand is almost completely being met out of domestic production; there were 420.7 million mobile phone Internet users in India last year, with this number expected to spike to almost 510 million by 2023, according to Statista.