The announcement was made in a Joint Statement by the Australian Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of India in March 2023
Australian Hass avocados have received provisional access to the Indian market. New access was granted after Australia demonstrated that its high-quality avocados could meet India’s biosecurity and food import requirements.
10 trial shipments will be sent to India during the provisional access period. Full access will be granted if these shipments meet India’s import requirements.
New access was announced in a Joint Statement by the Australian Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of India in March 2023.
The Australian Government is working with the avocado industry to facilitate the ten-shipment trial.
India has a small but growing avocado import market. In 2021-22, India imported
A$4.8 million of avocados, up from A$2.4 million in 2020-21 and A$1.6 million in 2019-20.
Imported avocados are a high-end product in India. They are most likely to enter the hospitality and food service sectors.
India imports avocados from New Zealand at 41 per cent, the EU at 39 per cent and Peru at 17 per cent. All of these exporters are subject to India’s 30 per cent Most Favoured Nation (MFN) import tariff. Under AI-ECTA, tariffs on Australian avocados have been reduced and will gradually decline to 0.
The average import unit price of New Zealand avocados in India in 2021-22 was A$4.81/kg. This is lower than the average unit import price of Australian avocados in Hong Kong (A$5.57kg) and Malaysia (A$5.54/kg) but similar to Singapore (A$4.84/kg).
