The Gov­ern­ment has moved to sim­pli­fy the ex­port process for sev­er­al key con­struc­tion and in­dus­tri­al ma­te­ri­als, re­mov­ing them from the re­strict­ed ex­port list ef­fec­tive Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

A le­gal no­tice is­sued on Christ­mas Day amends the Open Gen­er­al Li­cence (No­tice to Ex­porters No. 1 of 1998). The amend­ment deletes a spe­cif­ic cat­e­go­ry of goods that pre­vi­ous­ly re­quired in­di­vid­ual ex­port per­mits: clays, crushed lime­stone, boul­ders, sand, grav­el, plas­ter­ing sand, por­cel­lan­ite, argillite, and oil sand.

By re­mov­ing these items from the "ex­cep­tions" list, the gov­ern­ment is bring­ing them un­der the blan­ket ap­proval of the