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An Indian castings and fasteners maker shipped his first three export containers to a buyer in Dubai on payment against delivery, because "no one was ready to pay advance" (r/IndiaBusiness, 2025). That's the other side of the table at Bharat Mobility. Plenty of the component makers in these halls want export orders badly, and a buyer who turns up prepared has more leverage than the guides suggest.

An Indian castings and fasteners maker shipped his first three export containers to a buyer in Dubai on payment against delivery, because "no one was ready to pay advance" (r/IndiaBusiness, 2025 (opens in a new tab)). That's the other side of the table at Bharat Mobility. Plenty of the component makers in these halls want export orders badly, and a buyer who turns up prepared has more leverage than the guides suggest.

Bharat Mobility is India's big automotive and mobility show, with eleven shows under one banner across two venues. If you buy auto parts, components or engineering goods from India then it belongs on your shortlist. The honest caveat - the organiser publishes dates, venues and a buyer form, but no hosted-buyer terms, so budget for the trip yourself.

Next edition

  • Dates: 4 to 9 February 2027 at Bharat Mandapam. The shows at Yashobhoomi run 4 to 7 February. (Organiser's site, read 28 September 2026.)
  • Venue: Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan, and Yashobhoomi, Dwarka
  • City: New Delhi
  • Buyer registration: buyer application form on the organiser's site (opens in a new tab). It asks for your company, passport details, business type, what you import from India with HS codes, turnover and import value for 2025-26. No deadline is stated.

Who exhibits

EEPC India is the coordinating agency. The co-located shows each have their own industry body: the Auto Expo Components show is run by ACMA with SIAM and CII, and the tyre, battery, cycle, construction-equipment and agri-mobility shows sit with theirs. The motor show halls are about cars and launches, which is fun but not why you came. The components and technology show is where the sourcing happens.

Exhibitors range from tier-one suppliers to Indian carmakers down to small machining shops and merchant exporters. All of them are normal ways to do business. A tier-one supplier may be tied up with domestic OEM volume, while a smaller shop may be hungry for exactly your order. Ask who makes your part, which steps go out to job-work units, and who answers for quality when it lands.

Hosted-buyer terms

Not published, as at September 2026. EEPC's own engineering show, IESS, ran a hosted programme in 2024 with hotel nights, capped airfare and embassy screening. Whether Bharat Mobility offers anything like it is Unknown. Ask the organiser, or the commercial wing of the Indian mission in your country, before you pay for flights.

Visa

The e-Business Visa is the usual route for a fair visit. Apply at least two weeks ahead and ask the organiser for an invitation letter.

Getting there

Bharat Mandapam is at Pragati Maidan in central New Delhi. ITPO says the 123-acre complex has metro connectivity and underground parking, so check which gate serves your hall before you set off (ITPO, read 25 September 2026). Yashobhoomi is in Dwarka, on the airport side of the city, and the two sites are a long drive apart in Delhi traffic. Put the Yashobhoomi days next to your flights and don't plan both venues in one afternoon.

What to expect

Six days, two venues, eleven shows and a lot of noise. Pick your halls before you land and book meetings ahead through the buyer form, because walking the whole thing is a week you won't get back.

Foreign buyers report their weakest India results in precision work and their better ones in sintered and cast parts sold to the car trade (buyers on forums, 2021 to 2025). So bring drawings and tolerances, not a catalogue wish list, and ask each shortlisted maker for a sample of a similar part it already ships. If your category is castings, forgings, fasteners or made-to-drawing parts then compare this show with IESS, which is smaller and runs set B2B meetings.

Remember that maker in the Dubai story. First-time exporters often can't get an advance at all, and trade-finance voices put typical advances at 10 to 30% (bankers on forums, 2026). Don't open with a big deposit because a guide told you to. Our MOQ and pricing section has the terms, and if you want the shortlisted plants checked and visited after the show, SourcingSync (opens in a new tab) does it.

Past editions

  • 2025 and 2024: both editions were held, and the organiser's site still carries their exhibitor lists (read 28 September 2026). Their dates and buyer numbers aren't published there.

Sources

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Want meetings set up before you fly, exhibitors pre-screened against their public records, and factory visits run for you? SourcingSync (opens in a new tab) does it.

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