India Copper Market Shipment Analysis
India Copper Market registered a growth of 105.42% in value shipments in 2022 as compared to 2021 and an increase of 19.54% CAGR in 2022 over a period of 2017. In Copper Market India is becoming less competitive as HHI index in 2022 was 4126 while in 2017 it was 4056. Herfindahl Index measures the competitiveness of exporting countries. The range lies from 0 to 10000, where a lower index number represents a larger number of players or exporting countries in the market while a large index number means less numbers of players or countries exporting in the market. India has reportedly relied more on imports to meet its growing demand in Copper Market.
India is unable to meet its increasing needs of this product with domestic production hence we see the trend is shifting towards import shipment to meet its demand The import factor of Copper Market in 2022 was 4.39 while in 2017 it was 1.52. Germany, China, Poland, Belgium and Italy were among the top players of the market in 2022, where Germany acquired the largest market share of 52.46% with a shipment value of 4.25 million USD in 2022 Germany also offered the product below the average market price thus having a competitive advantage over others In 2017 China had the largest market share of 59.52% with the shipment value of 0.8 million USD. The country was offering its product with an average price which is lower than the average market price offered in the country. As China price is lower than the average price, it provided a significant edge among other competitor in 2017.
