Silver Jewelry: India vs Vietnam
For brands sourcing silver jewelry, here's how India stacks up against Vietnam on the factors that actually move your margin — cost, duty, speed and risk.
Why India leads on silver jewelry
Jaipur is a leading global silver-jewellery hub, with deep capacity in 925 sterling, oxidised tribal styles and gemstone-set pieces. Thailand and China compete on volume and Italy on machine-made chain, but India's strength is hand-set, design-rich silver at flexible MOQs. For brands wanting artisanal sterling with genuine stones, it is a premier source.
Set against Vietnam specifically, its real strength is low labor cost, while its weak point for this category is limited craft & handicraft base. For silver jewelry, that trade-off is why India wins on landed cost as well as craft depth and duty access.
Cost index: 100 = India baseline. Figures are directional benchmarks from our factory network, DGFT and USITC data — see the India Export Index.
Where Vietnam fits in global sourcing
Vietnam has become a formidable assembly base — strong in apparel and footwear, with a thick web of trade agreements into the EU. Its limits show in craft and handicraft, where the artisan base is thin, and in raw materials, much of which it imports. India is the deeper choice wherever heritage technique, natural-fibre supply or hand-finishing is part of the product.
Where Vietnam is strong
- Low labor cost
- Strong in apparel & footwear
- FTA access to EU
Where it falls short
- Limited craft & handicraft base
- Capacity tightening
- Import-dependent raw materials
The verdict
India wins on silver jewelry
For silver jewelry, India offers a roughly 5% landed-cost edge over Vietnam. Against Vietnam's particular profile above, the India route adds Jaipur's craft depth, lower tariff exposure and a transparent, auditable supply chain — the gap is widest precisely on a craft-led category like this one.
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Buyer FAQ
Silver Jewelry: India vs Vietnam — FAQs
- For Silver Jewelry, our cost index puts Vietnam about 5% above India's baseline of 100 — and India's lower tariff exposure plus its RoDTEP refund widen that advantage.
- Vietnam averages about 20% US import duty; Indian-origin Silver Jewelry (HS 7113) avoids the Section-301 surcharges levied on China and draws on India's expanding trade agreements. Confirm the HS line for your destination.
- Indian production runs 30–50 days for Silver Jewelry, typically out of Jaipur. Sourcing from India also spreads concentration risk away from a single country and gives you a transparent, English-speaking supply chain to audit.
- Yes. We manage sampling, QC, freight and documentation end-to-end, typically from Jaipur, so you can run a parallel pilot before shifting volume — no flights required.
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