Chinese airlines agree to resume drug imports to India
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A week after the Chinese state-owned Sichuan Airlines announced suspending its air cargo services to India for 15 days following the second wave of Covid-19, the Indian authorities have reached out to the Chinese authorities seeking to help avert a major supply chain disruption of essential medicines during the pandemic.
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India s overall imports of bulk drugs and drug intermediates amounted to $3.84 billion.
Providing major relief to the Indian pharmaceutical sector, the Chinese authorities have agreed to resume the suspended air cargo operations to help India import vital key starting material (KSMs) and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) with over two-thirds of dependence on China.
India urges China to clear bottlenecks on key pharma raw-material
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The Pharmexcil director-general Ravi Uday Bhaskar wrote to Indian Ambassador in China Vikram Misri for an immediate intervention in the backdrop of the decision of the Chinese state-owned Sichuan Airlines to suspend its cargo services to India for 15 days following the second wave of Covid-19.
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Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil), the country’s nodal agency for exports of pharmaceuticals, on Thursday appealed to the Indian Ambassador in China to immediately intervene in clearing bottlenecks on import of key raw materials from China amid serious supply chain disruptions.