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Section 14

Sports goods (cricket, football, fitness)

India’s exports: 398.6 US$ million · 2025-26 (provisional)

HS codes
3
top markets
5

How to start

  1. Get an Import Export Code (IEC) from DGFT online; it is free and linked to your PAN.
  2. Register with SGEPC and get your RCMC (Registration-cum-Membership Certificate) through the DGFT e-RCMC system.
  3. Cricket goods to the UK, Australia and South Africa are the natural first market; fitness and yoga goods have wider demand.
  4. Supply private labels and sports clubs, then build your own brand online.

Top buyer countries

  1. United Kingdom40.33 US$ million · 2025-26
  2. United States40.26 US$ million · 2025-26
  3. Australia30.19 US$ million · 2025-26
  4. Germany9.62 US$ million · 2025-26
  5. South Africa7.98 US$ million · 2025-26

Certificates and registrations

  • SGEPC RCMC
  • Federation approvals (for example FIFA Quality for footballs) for match-grade goods
  • Child-labour-free and social compliance audits for brands

Watch out for

  • English and Kashmir willow supply limits cricket bat output.
  • Demand is seasonal around each country’s sports season.

Businesses in the encyclopedia

Cricket Bats →Leather Cricket Ball Making →Cricket Batting Gloves Unit →Badminton Racket Making →

Sources (3)
  1. TradeStat, Department of Commerce — Export: Principal Commodity-wise, April–March 2026 (provisional), US$ million — row "H1, SPORTS GOODS"
  2. TradeStat (Export Import Data Bank), Department of Commerce — Commodity-wise all countries export, HS 9506, 2025-26, US$ million · 2025-26
  3. HBP Appendix 2T — List of EPCs / Commodity Boards (DGFT), via research/export-import.json · 2023