India Adds to Export Restrictions for Diagnostic Kits, Instruments

India revised its export restrictions for certain “diagnostic kits,” the country’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a June 10 notice. The notice revised the description for an April notification that restricted exports of the kits (see 2004060016). It also added export restrictions on several related items, including “diagnostic instruments/apparatus/reagents." Those items include certain falcon tubes and sterile swabs, silicon columns, and other chemicals, acids and substances.