Progress on India’s pre-shipment inspection rules

Archiv – India | In a notice issued on September 23, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forest has introduced improvements to its import rules that will allow traders to provide their services to their clients – the ’actual users’ – having registered with the State Pollution Control Board, according to a statement issued by the BIR world recycling body.India | In a notice issued on September 23, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forest has introduced improvements to its import rules that will allow traders to provide their services to their clients – the ’actual users’ – having registered with the State Pollution Control Board, according to a statement issued by the BIR world recycling body.
In addition, the new Indian rules allow both inspection agencies ’certified by the exporting country’ and inspection and certification agencies ’approved by the Director General of Foreign Trade’ to provide exporters with pre-shipment inspection certificates where required.
These modifications have been unveiled in the wake of considerable efforts by the BIR and its Indian members – and in particular by BIR’s Ambassador to India, Ikbal Nathani – to promote what they describe as ’necessary changes regarding the controls of imports into India’.
’It is still the case that not every exporting country will have the services of an inspection agency, and certain inspection agencies are likely to continue to refuse to provide certificates for India due to the required certificate wording and its liability,’ BIR acknowledges. For exporting countries that have neither inspection agencies ’certified by the exporting country’ nor inspection and certification agencies approved by the DGFT in India, there is ’no fall-back arrangement’ in the new rules for allowing inspection at the port of entry or allowing companies to ’self-certify’ if, for example, they are certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 or equivalent, BIR adds.