On 24 March, the foreign trade regulator had prohibited the export of all sanitisers as well as ventilators to ensure adequate supply of the products in the country In a partial rollback of curbs imposed in March, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on Wednesday allowed export of all sanitisers, keeping only foreign sale of alcohol-based hand sanitisers under the ban amid heightened demand for the product during the covid-19 pandemic. “The notification no.
53 dated 24.03.2020 is amended to the extent that only ‘alcohol-based hand sanitizers’ ...are prohibited for export," the DGFT said in a notification.