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India Removes Some Masks and Gloves From Banned Export List
Members of the media stands outside an isolation ward opened as a preventative measure at the North Bengal Medical college and Hospital in Siliguri.
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India will again allow shipments of surgical and disposable masks and some gloves, about a week after placing them on a list of banned export items.
However, exports of gloves made from nitrile rubber, a synthetic variety generally known as NBR, and masks other than two and three-ply, will continue to be restricted, according to a notification by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade. Overseas sales of other personal protection equipment shall also remain prohibited, it added.