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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized more than 362 metric tonnes of Pakistan-origin dry dates under Operation Deep Manifest.
Thirteen containers were intercepted at a Container Freight Station at Ambad, Nashik, with documents declaring the UAE as the country of origin.
The goods had actually moved from Karachi to Jebel Ali, where they were transferred into different containers and a different vessel before shipment to India.
India has prohibited the direct or indirect import or transit of all Pakistan-origin goods since 2 May 2025.
Rules of origin decide which country a good legally comes from — which is where it was produced or substantially transformed, not the last port it sailed from. Mere transshipment through a third country does not change origin, so re-containerising Pakistani dates at Jebel Ali left them Pakistan-origin.
Simple Analogy: Changing planes in Dubai does not make you a UAE citizen.
Imposed, in the interest of national security, a complete prohibition on the direct or indirect import or transit into India of all goods originating in or exported from Pakistan.
The statutory hook for origin verification. It requires an importer claiming a preferential rate under a trade agreement to possess and produce origin information, and allows customs to verify it.
Notified on 21 August 2020 and in force from 21 September 2020. It supplements the certification procedures already provided under FTAs, PTAs, CECAs and CEPAs, placing the burden of substantiating an origin claim on the importer.
India's apex anti-smuggling intelligence and investigation agency; gathers intelligence on and investigates customs offences including commercial fraud and origin misdeclaration.
Apex body administering customs, GST, central excise and narcotics enforcement; DRI's parent board.
Formulates and implements India's foreign trade policy and issues the notifications that give it effect, including the 2 May 2025 import prohibition.
A core WTO principle requiring a member to extend the same trade terms to every other member. India's withdrawal of MFN status from Pakistan in February 2019 and the 200 per cent duty that followed were the first stage of a rupture the 2025 prohibition completed.
A separate Ministry of Finance agency dealing with foreign exchange and money-laundering offences. It is routinely confused with the DRI in matching questions — DRI is customs and smuggling, ED is FEMA and PMLA.
CAROTAR's origin checks bite hardest where a concessional duty is claimed under an FTA or PTA, which makes origin fraud a trade-policy problem as much as a security one.
GS Paper 3 > Internal Security and External Sector > Trade Restrictions and Enforcement Agencies
General Awareness > Government Agencies and Current Affairs
With reference to the Government of India, consider the following information: I. Directorate of Enforcement : Enforcement of the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 : Internal Security Division-I, Ministry of Home Affairs II. Directorate of Revenue Intelligence : Enforces the Provisions of the Customs Act, 1962 : Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance III. Directorate General of Systems and Data Management : Carrying out big data analytics... : Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance In how many of the above rows is the information correctly matched?
Answer: Only two
Criteria determining the country a good is deemed to come from, used to apply tariffs, quotas and prohibitions.
Moving cargo from one vessel or container to another at an intermediate port; it changes the route but not the origin of the goods.
A customs-notified facility outside the port where import and export containers are consolidated, examined and cleared.