India’s services exports rise to USD 421.3 billion in FY 2025-26; government multi-pronged strategy via FTAs, MRAs and trade promotion
India’s services exports (FY2021-22 to FY2025-26) and government strategy through FTAs, MRAs and trade promotion
- SEPC, set up by the Department of Commerce, is described as playing a key role in services trade promotion, including market development, trade facilitation, policy advocacy, and international outreach supported under the Export Promotion Mission.
- Government states that recent FTAs include disciplines aimed at making authorisation processes for key services time-bound, predictable, objective, impartial and transparent.
What happened: services exports crossed USD 421.3 billion in FY2025-26
Government of India information attributes a continued rise in India’s services exports from FY 2021-22 through FY 2025-26, reaching USD 421.3 billion in FY 2025-26. RBI data cited in the Rajya Sabha reply also identifies the main sub-sectors driving the export base—telecommunications, computer and information services and business services.
What happened in the export mix: major sub-sectors
UPS C exam framing can treat services exports as an external-sector outcome, then link growth to policy design elements inside FTAs: market access, national treatment, domestic regulation disciplines, expedited professional mobility, and mutual recognition of qualifications—while using SEPC trade-promotion activities as implementation support.
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