Indian pharma export target worth USD 126 million in FY22 on blink amid Afghan crisis

According to the statistics supplied by Pharmexicl, India exported nearly USD 90 million and USD 97 worth of pharma products to Afghanistan in 2019-20 and 2020-21 respectively and became the second largest exporter after Pakistan.

Afghanistan has accepted Indian Pharmacopeia and the drugs manufactured in India are accepted there, Udaya Bhaskar said.

"A team of Afghan officials and trade representatives visited and held discussions with their counterparts in India in 2019 stemming the cordial relations," he said.

Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) Director General Ajay Sahai recently said domestic exporters should follow caution looking into the political development in Afghanistan, particularly with regard to payments, for which adequate credit insurance may be availed by them.

According to a pharma trade expert, Indian pharma exports comprises 20 per cent vaccines. Though Afghanistan does not receive all its required vaccines from India directly, several non-governmental organisations procure them from Indian firms and send them to that country.