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India & South Asia

Индия и Южная Азия · 6 countries · 39 producers · 3 sanctions entries mentioning region

World's #2 gold consumer and #2 silver consumer, large jewellery and bullion-bar refining sector. MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange) and NSE precious-metals futures, BSE gold ETFs, BIS hallmarking. Rising importer of copper concentrates, scrap, and battery materials.

Primary sources: MCX · USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries — India entries

Producers in region

39 entries from TSM producer directory (cross-referenced with company IR pages, HKEX, SEC, ASX, LSE filings). Expand a metal to see members.

steel 8
iron_ore 5
chromium 4
copper 3
aluminium 3
lead 3
ferrochrome 3
rare_earths 2
manganese 2
ferromanganese 2
zinc 1
gold 1
silver 1
stainless_steel 1

USGS country-rank data (MCS 2026)

Rows for region countries that appear in USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (DOI 10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Sorted by best rank.

Exchanges

Tracked in TSM exchange registry. Currency in region: INR Indian Rupee · PKR Pakistani Rupee · BDT Bangladeshi Taka.

  • MCX — Multi Commodity Exchange of India (Mumbai, India) · regulator: SEBI (India) · website
  • NSE-IN — National Stock Exchange of India — Commodity Derivatives (Mumbai, India) · regulator: SEBI (India) · website
  • BSE — Bombay Stock Exchange — mining/metals equity listings (Mumbai, India) · regulator: SEBI · website

Regulators

  • SEBI — Securities and Exchange Board of India · primary site
  • IFSCA — International Financial Services Centres Authority (Gujarat GIFT City) · primary site
  • BIS Hallmarking — Bureau of Indian Standards · primary site
  • DGFT — Directorate General of Foreign Trade · primary site

Key export-control regimes

Outbound restrictions issued by regulators in this region. Cross-regional matrix: /export-controls/.

  • Gold import duty + AIDC — customs duty 6%, effective 2024-07-23 · official notice
  • Iron-ore export duty (lump/fines) — ad-valorem 30% / 50%, effective 2022-05-21 · official notice
  • DGFT Critical and Strategic Minerals — 24 minerals removed from atomic-minerals list (open to private mining) — policy (MMDR Amendment Act 2023), effective 2023-07-29 · official notice
  • 30% export duty on iron-ore lumps and fines (rescinded for low-grade Nov 2022) — export duty (CBIC Notification 27/2022), effective 2022-05-22 · official notice
  • Critical Mineral Mission — Union Budget 2024-25, exploration + processing incentives — national policy + duty waivers on imports of 25 critical minerals, effective 2024-07-23 · official notice

Sanctions-issuing bodies

Daily-tracked feeds in TSM sanctions watch.

No sanctions-issuing body based in this region.

Port operators in region

5 commodity-relevant ports. Operator / parent / stake / concession dates mirror what each issuer publicly discloses (annual reports, IR pages, HKEx/NSE/SEC filings). TSM does not classify ownership — only links to the primary source for every row.

PortCountryOperatorParentStakeSinceUntilSource
Chittagong (Chattogram)BangladeshChittagong Port Authority (CPA) — with Saif Powertec Ltd operating Chittagong Container Terminal (CCT) under contract; NCT transferred to Chittagong Dry Dock Ltd (Bangladesh Navy) July 2025Government of Bangladesh (Ministry of Shipping) (BD)100%1976primary →
GwadarPakistanChina Overseas Ports Holding Company Pakistan Pvt. Ltd. (COPHC Pakistan)China Overseas Ports Holding Company Limited (COPHC, Hong Kong) (CN) · state (Chinese state-owned)100%20132053primary →
HambantotaSri LankaHambantota International Port Group (Private) Limited (HIPG)China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited (CN) · HKEx 14470%20172116primary →
MundraIndiaAdani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ)Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) (IN) · NSE ADANIPORTS100%19982081primary →
Vizhinjam International SeaportIndiaVizhinjam International Seaport Ltd (VISL) — Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd developer/operatorAdani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) (IN) · NSE ADANIPORTS74%20152055primary →

Primary annual-report and IR sources tracked: COSCO Shipping Ports (HKEx 1199), China Merchants Port (HKEx 144), DP World, Adani Ports (NSE ADANIPORTS), PSA International, APM Terminals (via A.P. Møller-Mærsk), Hutchison Ports (HKEx 0001 CK Hutchison).

Region on map

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