Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), local chapter, today welcomed the amendment to the import of apples, curtailing restrictions of importing it through only one port in the country.
The Director General of Foreign Trade's September 2015 a notification, wherein import of fresh apples was restricted only through Nava Sheva Port in Maharashtra, created lots of problems for fruit merchants all over India, particularly apple merchants, ICCI president D Nandakumar said.
He and ICCI Secretary Rajesh B Lund, along with a member of Coimbatore Fruit Merchants' Association had met Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman when she was here in October last and given a representation on it,
In response to this, DGFT had issued another notification on January 12, curtailing the restrictions and allowing apple imports through sea ports and airports in Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai and Cochin and Land Port and Airport in Delhi, he said.
Import of Apples is also allowed through India's land borders,which would help increase availability of the fruit in the domestic market and ease its prices, Nandakumar said in a release here.
