an analysis for india and china - icrier

Table 7.1 : Top resource and labour intensive manufactures: India
Rank SITC Description
1 65 Textile yarn, fabrics, made-up articles, n.e.s., and related products
2 84 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories
3 66 Non-metallic mineral manufactures, n.e.s
In the high demand of skill, technology, capital and scale category, i.e.
UNCTAD-IV, the commodity category of organic chemicals has a conspicuous presence
followed by inorganic chemicals.
Table 7.2: Top manufactures requiring high demand of skill, technology, capital
and scale: India
Rank SITC Description
1 51 Organic chemicals
2 52 Inorganic chemicals
3 54 Medicinal and pharmaceutical products
4 88 Photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies and optical goods, n.e.s.; watches and
clocks
The picture is roughly the same in 2000. The maximum number of commodities is
from the resource and labour intensive category as per the UNCTAD and OECD
classification systems. These are followed by sectors that make a high demand for skill,
technology capital and scale for the UNCTAD classification and skill intensive in case of
OECD classification systems. Within the category IV of UNCTAD classification the
predominant position of organic chemicals is again evident. In fact the number of
commodities in this category also remains the same in the two years. (Refer Appendix
Table A.12 and A.13).
The OECD provides us with a useful insight by segregating science based
manufactures. 67 product categories can be classified as science based manufactures. In
the science based manufactured commodities, the predominant category is medicinal and
pharmaceutical products, followed by photographic apparatus, equipment, and supplies
and optical goods n.e.s; watches and clocks. In this category, office machines and
automatic data-processing machines, has recorded highest increase between 2000 and
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