India relaxes some restrictions on petcoke imports for use as feedstock

India allowed imports of 500,000 tonnes of petcoke per year by aluminium companies and 1.4 mn tonnes of petcoke by calcined petcoke makers

India relaxed some restrictions on imports of petcoke for use as feedstock in some industries, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said on Twitter on Wednesday.

India allowed imports of 500,000 tonnes of petcoke per year by aluminium companies and 1.4 million tonnes of petcoke by calcined petcoke makers, a trade ministry notification posted by the DGFT on Twitter showed.

 

Provision for import of Pet Coke for Anode making by Aluminium Industry & Calcined Pet Coke manufacturing units has been relaxed. For more details please refer to Notification No. 42/2015-2020 dated 23.10.2018 https://t.co/J8tKQuAeeC

— DGFT (@dgftindia) October 24, 2018