India: India Notifies Plant Quarantine Second Amendment Order Specific to the Import of US-origin Sweet Cherries

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   IN2022-0043

India notified its draft Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) (Second Amendment) Order (2022), to the Sanitary-Phytosanitary (SPS) Committee of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and is inviting comments. The amendment is specific to the import of U.S.-origin cherries and includes additional provisions to facilitate the import of U.S. sweet cherries. The final order, when published, will allow U.S.-origin cherries to be shipped to India under the new protocol. The timeline to comment closes on June 27, 2022.

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