Skip to content

WTO notification · SPS

IndiaProposed measure, not in force yet

Citrus fruit; fresh or dried – India

Official title

Draft Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) Order, 2003 (Sixteenth Amendment) 2025

India notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 13 May 2026. The comment period closed on 12 July 2026.

Expodite puts notifications like this one in your Updates centre, matched to the HS codes of your products and the markets you export to. Opens the requirements check for India in your Expodite account.

Source: WTO ePing (opens in a new tab). Summaries by Expodite, which is independent of the WTO.

Published here:

At a glance

Products

Citrus fruits

HS codes
  • 08 · Fruit and nuts, edible; peel of citrus fruit or melons
    • 0805 Citrus fruit, fresh or dried
Notifying member
India
Status
Proposed measure, not in force yet
Objectives
  • Plant protection
  • Protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease
  • Protect territory from other damage from pests
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/IND/351
Keywords
Pests, Plant health, Territory protection

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 12 July 2026
Proposed adoption
Yet to be decided.
Proposed entry into force
This shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official gazette.

How to comment

The comment period closed on 12 July 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/IND/351; it can take them up with India.

Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)

What the notification says

The Draft Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) (Sixteenth Amendment) Order, 2025 seeks to further liberalize provisions governing In-Transit Cold Treatment (ITCT) for Import of Citrus Fruits from South Africa.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

All updates from India
All export regulation updates

Get these automatically for your products and markets.

Expodite matches each notification to the markets you export to and the HS codes of your products, and puts the ones that concern you in your Updates centre, with the date comments close.