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| Year | Direction | Value | Quantity | Net weight | How it was measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Imports | $5.7B | 5,475,026 carats | 1 t | Aggregated by UNSD |
| 2024 | Exports | $13.4B | 16,700,951 carats | 3 t | Aggregated by UNSD · weight estimated |
| 2023 | Imports | $7.6B | 30,011,788 carats | 6 t | Aggregated by UNSD |
| 2023 | Exports | $17.3B | 19,822,664 carats | 3 t | Aggregated by UNSD · weight estimated |
| 2022 | Exports | $22.9B | 26,626,710 carats | 5 t | Aggregated by UNSD · weight estimated |
| 2022 | Imports | $8.7B | 6,137,181 carats | 1 t | Aggregated by UNSD · weight estimated |
| 2021 | Imports | $8.5B | 6,070,482 carats | 1 t | Aggregated by UNSD |
| 2021 | Exports | $23.8B | 32,034,464 carats | 6 t | Aggregated by UNSD · weight estimated |
| 2020 | Exports | $14.6B | 20,262,532 carats | 4 t | Aggregated by UNSD · weight estimated |
| 2020 | Imports | $6.2B | 4,077,640 carats | 815 kg | Aggregated by UNSD · weight estimated |
| 2019 | Exports | $20.5B | 27,698,312 carats | 5 t | Aggregated by UNSD · weight estimated |
| 2019 | Imports | $8.3B | 7,230,658 carats | 1 t | Aggregated by UNSD · weight estimated |
Source: UN Comtrade · https://comtradeapi.un.org. Figures are for all trading partners combined.
Nobody has published a domestic substitute for this commodity yet. Substitutes are curated, so an empty list means nothing has been recorded — not that no substitute exists.
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A practical pathway to establishing domestic production for diamonds (non-industrial, other than unworked or simply sawn, cleaved or bruted, but not mounted or set) in India, based on a feasibility score of 56 out of 100. Establish Sourcing and Processing Infrastructure: Set up initial processing lines for non-industrial diamonds, leveraging India's existing export capability score of 25/25 and navigating the import dependence context of USD 5,792,254,324 in annual imports and USD 13,490,148,602 in annual exports. Build Domestic Supply Chain Networks: Address the baseline of NONE RECORDED for known domestic substitutes and 0 domestic suppliers with matching capability by vertically integrating or onboarding raw material providers directly. Manage Lead Times and Supplier Scaling: Operate under conditions where the median domestic supplier lead time is NOT RECORDED, establishing independent logistics and internal tracking to mitigate lack of published supplier metrics. Risks: High import dependence reflected in the import dependence sub-score of 31/35. Complete absence of known domestic substitutes and matching supplier capacity. Lack of recorded median domestic supplier lead times creating forecasting uncertainty. Regulatory and capital exposure inherent in high-value gemstone processing.
gemini-3.5-flash-lite (gemini-3.5-flash-lite) · prompt localization-narrative-v3 · No confidence recorded