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By Aditi Shah, Aftab Ahmed and Gleb Stolyarov
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Moscow has sent India a database of much than 500 products for imaginable transportation including parts for cars, craft and trains, 4 sources acquainted with the substance said, arsenic sanctions compression Russia's quality to support captious industries running.
The list, a mentation of which has been seen by Reuters successful New Delhi, is provisional and it is unclear however galore of the items volition yet beryllium exported and successful what quantity, but an Indian authorities root said the petition was antithetic successful its scope.
India is keen to boost commercialized successful this way, said the source, arsenic it tries to constrictive a ballooning commercialized shortage with Russia. Some companies person expressed concern, however, astir perchance falling foul of Western sanctions.
An manufacture root successful Moscow, who declined to beryllium named due to the fact that of the sensitivity of the issue, said Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade asked ample companies to proviso lists of earthy materials and instrumentality they needed.
The root added that further treatment would beryllium needed to hold specifications and volumes and that the outreach was not constricted to India.
Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Indian overseas and commerce ministries and the premier minister's bureau did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
Russia's requests were made weeks up of Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar's sojourn to Moscow starting Nov. 7, 2 of the Indian sources said. It was not instantly wide what was conveyed by New Delhi to Russia during the visit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's authorities has not joined Western countries successful openly criticising Moscow for the warfare successful Ukraine, and has sharply accrued purchases of Russian lipid that person cushioned it from immoderate of the interaction of sanctions.
During the Moscow visit, Jaishankar said India needed to boost exports to Russia to equilibrium bilateral commercialized that is present tilted towards Russia.
He was accompanied connected the sojourn by elder officials successful complaint of agriculture, petroleum and earthy gas, ports and shipping, finance, chemicals and fertiliser, and commercialized - which helium said showed the value of ties with Russia.
RUSSIA'S STRUGGLES
Western sanctions person crippled supplies of immoderate important products successful Russia.
Airlines are experiencing an acute shortage of parts due to the fact that astir each planes are foreign-made. Car parts are besides successful demand, with planetary automakers having near the market.
A root successful Russia's car income manufacture said the commercialized ministry had sent a database of car parts needed to corresponding ministries and authorities agencies successful different countries, including India.
The database of items from Russia, which runs to astir 14 pages, includes car motor parts similar pistons, lipid pumps and ignition coils. There is besides request for bumpers, seatbelts and infotainment systems.
For craft and helicopters, Russia requested 41 items including landing cogwheel components, substance systems, connection systems and occurrence extinguishing systems, beingness jackets and aviation tyres.
Also connected the database were earthy materials to nutrient paper, insubstantial bags and user packaging and materials and instrumentality to nutrient textiles including yarns and dyes, according to the papers reviewed by Reuters.
Russian metals producers similar nickel and palladium elephantine Nornickel person said Western sanctions and self-sanctioning by immoderate suppliers person made it hard for concern companies to get imported equipment, spare parts, materials and technologies successful 2022, posing a situation to their improvement programmes.
The database includes astir 200 metallurgy items.
Russia has been India's largest supplier of subject instrumentality for decades and it is the fourth-biggest marketplace for Indian pharmaceutical products.
But with purchases of Russian lipid soaring and ember and fertiliser shipments besides strong, India is looking for ways to rebalance trade, the archetypal Indian authorities root said.
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Indian imports from Russia person grown astir 5 times to $29 cardinal betwixt Feb. 24 and Nov. 20 compared with $6 cardinal successful the aforesaid play a twelvemonth ago. Exports, meanwhile, person fallen to $1.9 cardinal from $2.4 billion, the root said.
India is hoping to boost its exports to astir $10 cardinal implicit coming months with Russia's database of requests, according to the authorities source.
But immoderate Indian companies are reluctant to export to Russia implicit fears of being sanctioned by the West, the deficiency of clarity implicit payments and challenges to securing insurance.
"There is simply a hesitancy among exporters ... peculiarly connected sanctioned items," said Ajay Sahai, manager wide of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO), a assemblage supported by India's commerce ministry.
Sahai, who is alert of Russia's request, said adjacent small- and medium-sized exporters who could conscionable immoderate of the requests and had antecedently exported to Iran aft Western sanctions, were not enthusiastic.
Large Indian lenders are besides reluctant to process nonstop rupee commercialized transactions with Russia, months aft the mechanics was enactment successful place, for fearfulness of being sanctioned.
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(Additional reporting by Manoj Kumar successful New Delhi; Graphics by Kripa Jayaram; Editing by Mike Collett-White and Louise Heavens)
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