India’s transformational journey from being a USD 70.66 billion en‑ gineering‑exporting nation in FY 2014‑15 to USD 122.43 billion in FY 2025‑26 is a powerful validation of this nation’s development and prog‑ ress during the last 12 years.

Engineering is an important sec‑ tor for the growth of the nation and has immense contribution in India’s economy.In merchandise exports, the sector remains the largest foreign ex‑ change earner with a share of around 28% in FY 2025‑26.The Government of India has determined an ambitious export target of USD 2 trillion exports by 2030 of which USD 1 trillion is set for the merchandise exports.

Engineering sector being the largest foreign exchange earner has a very critical role in achieving this ambi‑ tious export target and it has been performing significantly well even in the face of global adversities.

Given the importance of this sector, the role of EEPC also becomes ex‑ tremely critical – EEPC India played instrumental role in promoting India’s engineering exports from US$ 10 mil‑ lion in 1955‑56 to reach US$ 122.43 billion in 2025‑26.

Global trade environment today is undergoing significant turbulence due to ongoing geopolitical con‑ flicts and increasing protectionism across the world.

As per the UNCTAD Global Trade Update in April, the positive trends achieved in global trade in 2025 remains fragile and is even expect‑ ed to slow down in the later part of 2026 due to persistent tensions across key maritime routes.

At the same time, tightening finan‑ cial conditions, slowing demand in advanced economies, and currency volatility have further dampened global trade momentum.

The industry is worthy of praise, for their stellar performance in these challenging times– Engineering ex‑ ports achieved positive growth in FY 2025‑26 and reached an all‑time high figure of USD 122.43 billion.

The industry needs to be assured that Department of Commerce has been constantly monitoring the global trade trends and are bring‑ ing schemes accordingly which would be of significant help for the exporters.

• • The RELIEF Scheme is one such example ‑ the scheme is a timely intervention designed to support Indian exporters facing logistics disruptions and rising trade costs arising from geopolitical devel‑ opments in West Asia.It is aimed at strengthening the resilience and competitiveness of Indian exporters
• • Export Promotion Mission ‑aims to create a unified and coordinat‑ ed framework for enhancing In‑ dia’s export competitiveness by bringing together the efforts of the Centre, States, and industry stakeholders. The Government is also aware of the need for export promotion assistance for our industry especially MSMEs.The Mission focuses on market diver‑ sification, export facilitation, and strengthening the capacity of In‑ dian enterprises to integrate with global value chains.
• Export Promotion Mission (EPM) is a flagship initiative to strengthen India’s export ecosystem, with a focus on MSMEs, first-time exporters and labour-intensive sectors.
• • Seven additional interventions have been launched under EPM, advancing the Mission towards nearcomplete operationalisation.
• EPM is implemented through two integrated sub-schemes, Niryat Protsahan and Niryat Disha, providing financial and non-financial export support.
• The Mission provides support for trade finance, export compliance, logistics, overseas warehousing and market access.

The Export Promotion Mission represents a coordinated export support ecosystem combining financial enablers, market access support and ecosystem-level interventions. By addressing both creditrelated and non-financial barriers faced by exporters, particularly MSMEs, the Mission aims to reduce the cost of exporting, improve compliance readiness and enhance global market integration.

Through coordinated implementation by Central Ministries, State and District authorities, financial institutions, Export Promotion Councils and Indian Missions abroad, EPM is envisaged to promote inclusive, decentralised and sustainable export growth.

Key Features

• Rs. 25,060 crore mission (2025–31) for a unified, digital export support framework.
• Niryat Protsahan - affordable credit, interest subvention, export factoring.
• Niryat Disha - compliance, branding, logistics & global market access.

• Foreign Trade Policy ‑ The Government has also made the new Foreign Trade Policy more district‑driven, digital and remission‑based ecosystem with special focus on E‑commerce exports, MSME participation and global value chains.

• • Trade Connect Platform ‑ The newly launched Trade Connect platform is aimed at linking exporters with DGFT, EPCs and Indian Missions for better dissemination of information.
• • District Based Export Strategy ‑ Districts as Export Hubs (DEH)&One District One Product (ODOP) ‑ The Government has also implemented a District based export strategy ‑ Districts as Export Hubs (DEH) identifies export potential across 700+ districts and One District One Product (ODOP) is aimed at building product specialisation & branding at grassroots level.
• • Free Trade Agreements ‑ India has concluded nine Free Trade Agreements over a period of 5 years since 2021 with 38 developed countries, providing access to markets that account for nearly two‑thirds of global GDP and trade.
• These agreements open new export opportunities in key sectors such as textiles, leather, footwear and pharmaceuticals, which have strong export potential and significant MSME participation.
• These agreements complement India’s growth story by expanding market access, facilitating trade, enabling movement of talent and attracting investments, including the establishment of Global Capability Centres in India.
• India is likely to execute few more significant trade agreements in the coming years and operationalize all nine recently concluded agreements shortly.
• Industry has been encouraged to leverage expanded market access and meet global quality benchmarks to strengthen India’s share in international trade.

INDIA’S ACTIVE FTA NEGOTIATIONS

• India‑U.S. BTA
• India‑Australia CECA
• India‑Sri Lanka ETCA
• India‑Peru FTA
• India‑Chile CEPA
• India‑EAEU FTA
• India‑Israel FTA
• India‑Canada CEPA
• India ‑ Korea CEPA
• To enhance India’s market access in key destinations, the Govern‑ ment is negotiating and conclud‑ ing a number of FTAs – we have already concluded and ratified FTAs with UAE, Australia, Oman and EFTA. Interestingly engi‑ neering exports to all the above partners reported growth in FY 2025‑26 barring UAE where the export was affected due to ongo‑ ing geopolitical conflict in the re‑ gion.Some of the FTAs are in the pipeline to be negotiated or im‑ plemented – these are FTAs with EU, UK, New Zealand, GCC and Canada.India is also exploring signing trade agreements with Mexico and Peru and expanding existing trade agreements with MERCOSUR and Chile.Once con‑ cluded these FTAs will also yield positive result for the Indian ex‑ porters.

• Another positive trend that has been noted is natural market di‑ versification among Indian ex‑ porters when access to traditional markets become challenging – when our products faced chal‑ lenges due to increased US tariff, safeguard duties imposed by EU, UK or Mexico, they were naturally diverted to newer markets in Lat‑ in America, Africa, Middle East and even Australia
• EEPC will definitely play a key role in awareness creation – the Council is already organizing a number of programmes for this purpose
• While the performance of India’s engineering exports has been laudable and our exports have been increasing, India’s share in global engineering export has stagnated around 1% In order to reach next level, the share must be increased to 2 to 2.5% in the next 5 years .It is observed that technology upgradation of Indian exports is a key area that needs to be addressed to reach the re‑ quired global export share.While many Indian companies are par‑ ticipating in global GVCs (Global value Chains), it is important that India increases participation in more advanced and high value manufacturing through technol‑ ogy upgradation

Jan 22 | 2014 | 5 INDIA SHOWS 5TH ONE WAS IN POLAND IN 2014

LAUNCH OF BRAND INDIA ENGINEERING

The Brand India Engineering campaign was promoted by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry and spearheaded by EEPC India (Engineering Export Promotion Council). The initiative was widely showcased at international platforms like the India Engineering Sourcing Show (IESS) in Mumbai to highlight the reliability and technological advancements of India’s engineering SMEs.

The campaign’s primary objective was to boost engineering exports by shifting global perception toward Indian manufacturing quality and innovation. To achieve this, it focused on the global cataloging and promotion of key sunrise sectors:

SEP 2 5 | 2014 LAUNCH OF MAKE IN INDIA

The Make in India initiative was officially launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 25, 2014, in New Delhi.

The global campaign was designed to transform India into a premier global manufacturing, design, and innovation hub by attracting foreign and domestic investments.

APRIL | 2014 INDIA AT HANNOVER 2015 PARTNER COUNTRY LANDMARK EVENT

A landmark event in 2015 was India’s participation as partner country in Hannover Messe. This was the 2nd time after a gap of nine years that India was invited to partner the world’s most important annual engineering and subcontracting fair. It was indeed a rare honour for EEPC India as the lead organising agency with support from other organisations, government departments and the Indian embassy in Germany.

The Hannover Messe 2015 registered a record footfall of 220,000 including 70,000 overseas visitors, a total of 6,500 exhibitors and 150 business delegations from 70 countries. The lion emblem of India was everywhere and Hon’ble Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi declared in his inaugural address: “The lions are a symbol of New India. They roar; but with a message of friendship and promise of partnership from the people of India.” He also thanked the city of Hannover and Hannover Messe for their generosity. The success of India’s participation in Hannover, jointly inaugurated by Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, surpassed all expectations and led to an impressive showcase and promotion of ‘Make in India’ campaign. It had set new standards for partner countries at Hannover Messe.

INNOPROM RUSSIA PARTNER COUNTRY

MSV BRNO 2017 PARTNER COUNTRY

BOGOTA INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHOW 2018 PARTNER COUNTRY

SEP 20 - 26 | 2021 VANIJYA SAPTAH

75th Anniversary of Indian Independence was celebrated by the Government of India through various activities during 2021 -2022. Vanijya Saptah was one such endeavour of the Department of Commerce over the week 20/09/2021 to 26/09/2021 to showcase the potential of our exporters and manufacturers.There were two broad events where EPCs were involved:

A. Vanjiya Utsav -Showcasing India as a Rising Economic Force on 21st and 22nd September.

The Export Promotion Councils (EPCs) were allocated respective States/UTs to organize physical events in collaboration with the State Governments on the theme of “Showcasing India as a Rising Economic Force”.

• 28 EPCs were mapped to 28 States and UTs
• EEPC India was assigned Uttar Pradesh

EXPORTER CAPACITY BUILDING

EEPC India with the help of Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry have started conducting Capacity Building programmes across the country with the focus to help and assist smaller exporters to reap the benefits in bolstering their exports.

EEPC India has grouped the events as:

• Export oriented training on understanding importance of packaging and working towards sustainable packaging solution for engineering exports (Export Packaging)
• Awareness programmes on understanding logistic supply chain issues in engineering exports and overcoming challenges faced in managing logistics for exports.
• Capacity building Awareness programmes on the standards / regulations / Certifications / accreditation and MRAs
• Capacity building programmes / seminars on “ Doing Business Abroad for identification of new markets and expansion of existing markets.
• Awareness programmes on “Technology up gradation / training on automation and Industry 4.0”
• Publicity /Awareness Campaign – to create a unique Cloud based Digi locker of 3-D Catalogue to be used for facilitation of online Business for MSMEs

BHARAT MOBILITY GLOBAL EXPO

Hosted by Industry associations and supported by Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India, Bharat Mobility Global Expos in 2024 and in 2025 emerged as one-of-its kind con uence covering the entire mobility ecosystem EEPC India played a pivotal role as the Coordinating Agency for Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2024 and 2025 by facilitating industry collaboration and ensuring seamless participation of key stakeholders.In 2027, the 3rd edition of Bharat Mobility Global Expo will be held between 4-9 February at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi and Yashobhoomi, Dwarka, New Delhi with EEPC India as the Coordinating Agency.For details https://www.bharat-mobility.com/