India's Tin Dependency: 83% From Three Countries, and Indonesia Is Studying an Export Ban
2 September 2026
India imported $472m of refined tin in 2025. Three countries supplied 83% of it, one of them supplied 42%, and that one is currently studying a ban on exporting it.
This note sets out where India's tin actually comes from, why the upstream concentrate route is open everywhere except India, and what the realistic diversification options are. Figures are India's own reported imports to UN Comtrade for calendar 2025.
What’s in the full analysis
10 sections · approximately 1,444 more words
- 01Where India's tin actually comes from
- 02The concentrate question, answered properly
- 03The upstream that feeds all of this
- 04Indonesia: 42% of supply, and a live policy risk
- 05China at 24%: the second concentration
- 06What diversification actually looks like
- 07The secondary channel
- 08What we would watch
- 09Sources
- 10Bottom line
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