The paper has analyzed the growth and structure of petroleum products and its sub-categories imports for the study period 1996-1997 to 2021-2022. The growth rates have been calculated with (i.e., 1996-1997 to 2019-2020) and without (i.e., 1996-1997 to 2021-2022) Covid-19 years. The paper revealed that the overall growth of India’s imports and petroleum product imports registered at lower level (i.e., 12.07 % and 13.93 % respectively) for the study period 1996-1997 to 2020-2022 as compared to 1996-1997 to 2019-2020 (i.e., 14.13 % and 14.96 %). Among the nine sub-categories of petroleum product, only the share of LPG imports was high (i.e., more than 40 per cent) in petroleum product imports with and without Covid years due to its wider application in domestic, industrial and transport sectors of economy.

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Keywords: Imports, India, Covid-19, Petroleum Products.