{"id":91153,"date":"2025-10-22T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/91153\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:06:13","slug":"after-8-year-freeze-andhras-prawns-return-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/91153\/","title":{"rendered":"After 8-year freeze, Andhra&#8217;s prawns return to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years after restricting shrimp imports from India, Australia on Tuesday granted first import approval for unpeeled Indian prawns from Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump tariffs hit Indian shrimp exports, Australia has granted conditional approval for a consignment. This is the first approval since January 2017 when Australia had banned unpeeled prawn imports from India after the detection of white spot virus in certain consignments. The decision has a direct impact on Andhra Pradesh, which accounts for 80% of India&#8217;s shrimp exports and had been exporting about 70% of its shrimp to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s decision to allow conditional import was announced by Andhra Pradesh IT and electronics minister Nara Lokesh, who is on a seven-day partnership tour to Australia. &#8220;A long-standing hurdle for Indian seafood exporters has been Australia&#8217;s restrictions on unpeeled prawns due to white spot virus detection. Today, the first import approval for Indian prawns has been granted,&#8221; Lokesh posted on X, terming the development as a &#8220;major step forward&#8221; for the sector.<br \/>Imposition of the tariffs by the Trump administration, which touched 59.72%, had a direct impact on Andhra&#8217;s shrimp exports.<\/p>\n<p>Importers in Australia and New Zealand have been pushing their governments to ease import restrictions. Speaking to ET, Dileep Maddukuri of Auckland-based <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/hasper-brand-labs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hasper Brand Labs<\/a> said, &#8220;Australia has allowed a consignment of prawns from India with certain conditions. These include the product (prawns) has to be organically harvested in disease-free zones. This is to ensure that the shipment is free of white spot virus. This is a new condition. There are other conditions like prawns have to be frozen and deveined. But these were a requirement prior to 2017 as well.&#8221; Maddukuri explained that if an importer has to source prawns from another country, he applies for a permit specifying which country they want to bring the shipment from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight years after restricting shrimp imports from India, Australia on Tuesday granted first import approval for unpeeled Indian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[61608,61606,114,184,61609,85,61607,46,28650],"class_list":["post-91153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-andhra-pradesh-shrimp-exports","tag-australia-shrimp-imports","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-hasper-brand-labs","tag-il","tag-indian-prawns-approval","tag-israel","tag-trump-tariffs-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}