an analysis for india and china - icrier

predominant share of 26 per cent. This is followed by shares of commodities like
inorganic chemical elements, oxides and halogen salts (SITC-522), tubes, pipes and
hollow profiles, and tube or pipe fittings, of iron or steel (SITC-679), synthetic organic
colouring matter and colour lakes, and preparations based thereon (SITC-531), organoinorganic
compounds, heterocyclic compounds, nucleic acids and their salts, and
sulphonamides (SITC-515) and essential oils, perfume and flavour materials (SITC-551).
In comparison, the number of commodities in the medium technology, human capital and
labor intensive is about 60 per cent of the number of the corresponding capital intensive
category. 88 manufactured commodities constitute the category classified as medium
technology, human capital and labor intensive by the WDI. A clear dominance in this
case is observed in the tools for use in hand or machines category (SITC-695).
The largest two categories according to the WDI classification are again the labor
intensive and the resource intensive categories. While the former has 524 items, the latter
has 404 items with comparative advantage for India. Among the labor - intensive
commodities, textile yarn has the maximum number of commodities with comparative
advantage. Other prominent items in this group are made-ups articles, wholly or chiefly
of textile materials, n.e.s. and women’s, girls coats, capes and jackets etc. This category
although largely reflective of India’s advantage in the textile sector also has certain other
items like motor cycles (including mopeds) and cycles, motorized and non-motorized;
invalid carriages, household equipment of base metal, n.e.s., manufactures of base metal,
n.e.s,, footwear, watches and clocks, miscellaneous manufactured articles, n.e.s.. In the
resource intensive category, again the dominant share is that of fabrics, woven, of manmade
textile materials (not including narrow or special fabrics), cotton fabrics, woven
(not including narrow or special fabrics).
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