Hyderabad: The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on Tuesday issued a notification of limiting human hair exports in raw form.
This is expected to curb product reduction and smuggling through Myanmar to China.
Toi has published a series of reports on human hair telltives to China and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had previously conducted a search after exposing TOI and cases ordered with exporters involved in smuggling.
DGFT notification states, “Export human hair, unworked, not or not washed, waste human hair or other raw human hair shapes have been laid under a limited category with direct effects.” Human hair manufacturers and human hair products and the exporter association welcomed the government, but demanded total prohibitions in the future.
Benjamin Cherian, the founding president of the Association, told TII, “This is the first step to block smugglers and exporters who use under-invoices.
DGFT notifications will make the work of illegal exporters difficult to get a license after the procedure and supervision.
However, we are afraid Some immoral elements will still try to find a way.
Complete prohibitions will help stop illegal exports.
“He added,” India is the largest human hair producer in the world.
Eighty percent of world hair is produced here, but we only make 2% of The product is worth adding like a wig.
Raw materials will lose.
We have lost some work in the industry so far.
“The association requested the assistance of the central government in finding better technology than Korea.
“Hair bleaching, wig manufacturing and other jobs can add value to the product.
At present, official exports are limited to RS 3,000 Crore, while unofficial smuggling will be more.
Money will return through Hawala, Gold and other ways of Myanmar and China,” Cherian said.
Ed Probe revealed that around Rs 16 Crore was paid to human hair traders by the Chinese online betting application company as part of a hawala transaction.
Two human hair export companies based in Hyderabad only got RS 3.4 Crore from Chinese companies.
Toi investigations have found that Myanmar citizens are permanently placed in Hyderabad, buy human hair locally and then export it to Myanmar at a price that is less valuable.
The probe under FEMA revealed that domestic traders combined and sold raw hair to foreign traders based in Hyderabad, Guwahati and Kolkata.
It’s smuggled through the road through LIFTH (Manipur), Zokhawthar (Mizoram), Aizawl (Mizoram) to Mandalay (Myanmar).
In the end, he found his way to China where he was labeled as domestic Chinese hair and processed.