Gujarat doubles export in a year, emerge as top exporter State in the country again

Gandhinagar: As per the figures shared by the Director General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Gujarat has been the top exporter State in the country. The State witnessed Rs. 8.37 lakh crore worth export in 2021-22(upto February-2022) against Rs. 4.48 lakh crore export in year 2020-21 and Rs. 4.50 lakh crore export in year 2019-20. The State is far ahead of Maharashtra which is on the second rank with Rs. 4.90 lakh crore export, Tamil Nadu which is on the third rank with Rs. 2.34 lakh crore export and Karnataka which is on the fourth rank with Rs. 1.69 lakh crore export. It is all possible that Gujarat may cross Rs. 10 lakh crore export figure by the end of this financial year. Gujarat exports petroleum, diamond, ceramics, cotton yarn, vegetable fats, textiles, oil seeds, machinery, engineering products and brass parts among other items.