Overview
- Andhra Pradesh minister Nara Lokesh announced the decision during an Australia visit focused on seafood trade and investment outreach.
- A draft import permit is reported to run for two years from October 20, 2025, marking the first pathway for unpeeled consignments since the white spot–linked ban.
- Reported conditions for consignments include sourcing from disease‑free zones and shipping prawns frozen and deveined to meet biosecurity standards.
- State officials say US tariff burdens rose to about 59.72%, prompting roughly half of orders to be cancelled and losses estimated near ₹25,000 crore.
- Lokesh met Seafood Industry Australia leaders to seek trade missions, buyer–seller linkages and technical cooperation, and invited a New South Wales delegation to the Visakhapatnam Partnership Summit on November 14–15.