Amritsar: With the Taliban sealing land border trading route which results in termination of export-import trade with India, the price of dried fruits rose 15-20 percent in Amritsar Punjab which tends to shoot more after the next season and winter season if the trade does not begin immediately .
However, the importers here are the view that the suspension of trade is a temporary phase and import exports will continue in the next few days.
When talking to TOI on Thursday, B Bajaj, President of the Indo’s foreign trade room said, “The suspension of import and export between India and Afghanistan is a temporary thing and trade will be continued next week or ten days.
And the increase in dried fruit prices is expected to be in such circumstances which is a normal practice.
He reasoned for the increase in prices of dried fruits in the domestic market while adding that dried fruit was luxury items and not important commodities.
The annual export trade between the two countries is 1.3 billion US dollars which cover 80 million US dollars export to Afghanistan while trading 500 million US dollars was held by an integrated checkpoint (ICP), Attari, said President of Indo Foreign Chamber of Commerce.
Hang out with Bajaj, Anil Mehra, President of the Federation of Karyana and the Dried Fruit Commercial Association, “This is the temporary phase, new plants lie in Afghanistan and it is an easy-to-damaged item, they have to export it to India.” , For now, the Taliban is in the process of forming their government and, with most likely, they can impose taxes, etc.
Which will be disclosed soon.
When asked about the increase in prices of dried fruit, he said some entrepreneurs might have it to increase their share price of 15-20 percent but the stock was very limited and would not last long.
On August 16, eight trucks of goods including dried fruits, wine, Mulethi had arrived at an integrated checkpoint in Attari, India from Afghanistan.
“In my opinion, the goods will begin to arrive from Afghanistan in just a few days,” said Mehra.