India Revises Export Quotas, Procedures for Certain Diagnostic Kits

India revised its export policies for certain “diagnostic kits and their components/laboratory reagents,” the Directorate General of Foreign Trade said Jan. 19. It set export quotas for certain diagnostic kits for the period December 2020 until February 2021: 66 million (660 lakh) for exports of “VTM Kits,” 40 million (400 lakh) for “RNA Extraction Kits” and 28 million (280 lakh) for “RT-PCR Kits.” The notice also outlines application procedures for exports of the kits.