Smartphone now India’s top export category: Vaishnaw

Smartphone has become India’s top export category with overseas shipments worth $30 billion in 2025, Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday. The minister shared the development in a social media post.“Becoming the smartphone manufacturing factory for the world,” Vaishnaw said.

The photo post titled Smartphones India’s No. 1 export category displayed that there were exports worth $30 billion in January-December 2025.Mobile phones worth INR5.5 lakh crore ($60 billion) were produced in the country, and exports from the segment were worth around INR2 lakh crore (about $22 billion) in 2024-25.