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Despite building a world-class, BIS-certified manufacturing base, India's uPVC profile industry is now facing an existential threat — not from a failure of quality or capability, but from the large-scale dumping of cheap, substandard profiles from China. Here is what is happening.
In 2025 alone, India imported an unprecedented 1,53,390 metric tonnes of finished uPVC profiles.
Chinese imports now hold a staggering 51% of the Indian market. Indian manufacturers, with all their investments and compliance costs, have been pushed down to 49%. The tipping point has already been crossed.
This is not organic market competition. This is a deliberate, structural takeover of a domestic industry by foreign dumped goods.
Chinese uPVC profiles are being landed in India at prices that are lower than what it costs Indian manufacturers to simply purchase the raw materials alone — before any processing, labour, or compliance cost is added.
This is not competition. This is dumping. It is made possible by Chinese state subsidies and a critical policy loophole that Indian manufacturers have been urging the government to fix.
India has imposed Anti-Dumping Duty on PVC Resin and Titanium Dioxide — key raw materials — when imported from China. But finished uPVC profiles from China attract only Basic Customs Duty.
So Chinese exporters simply convert raw materials into finished profiles in China and ship them to India, bypassing Anti-Dumping Duty entirely. The finished product lands cheaper than the raw material. This loophole must be closed.
A large proportion of Chinese uPVC profiles entering India do not meet BIS quality standards. They are not tested. They are not certified. They look acceptable at installation — but within 2 to 3 years, they yellow, turn brittle, crack, and fail.
Consumers spend money on windows that fall apart. And when that happens, it is the entire uPVC industry — including quality Indian manufacturers — whose reputation suffers.
India's manufacturers
Operating Capacity
India's manufacturers are operating at only 41% of their installed capacity — not because demand has fallen, but because Chinese imports have captured the market. MSMEs are shutting down. New investments have stalled. Skilled workers are losing livelihoods.
If nothing changes, "Make in India" risks becoming "Sell in India" — a market served entirely by foreign manufacturing.
Read our 5 demands to the government to level the playing field.