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Manufacturing exports of a country plays a prominent role in the growth of an economy. The development of this sector is an indicator of the economic strength of a country. It helps in raising productivity, generating employment and also supports other sectors of the Indian economy. The main objectives of the present study are as follows: (i) To analyze the growth performance of India’s manufactured exports during 1991-92 to 2016-17. (ii) To study the composition of India’s manufactured exports. (iii) To examine the determinants of trade liberalization on India’s manufactured exports. The present study is based on secondary data. The study focuses on the impact of trade liberalization on India’s manufactured exports. The data for this study have been collected from secondary sources of information mainly from the journals, international trade data source such as United Nations Trade Data, Commodity Trade Statistics, World Trade Organization Trade Statistics, World Bank, Hand Book of statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The study used multiple regression models mainly for examining the determinants of exports in the reform period and for assessing the impact of the trade reform on the India’s manufactured export.