DGFT revises export, import list of Indo-China border trade items through Nathula in Sikkim

May 9,  12:35 PM The Directorate General of Foreign Trade, DGFT, under the Union Ministry of Commerce, has revised the export and import list of items of the Indo-China border trade through Nathula in Sikkim. The traders from Sikkim can now export seven more items, taking the total number of items in the export list to 36. Similarly, they can now import twenty items from that side of the border against the fifteen items mentioned in the import list earlier. AIR Correspondent reports, this has fulfilled a long pending demand of the traders on both sides of the Nathula border. This year’s Indo-China border trade through Nathula in Sikkim, which could not start on the 1st May, due to heavy snowfall, is now expected to begin on the 21st of this month. The trade takes place from Ist May to 30th November every year. The border trade between the two Asian giants was revived in July 2006 since it had came to an abrupt halt in 1962 following the Indo-China War.(AIR)