Nepal and China trade through the Kerung-Rasuwagadhi border port resumed formally on Wednesday. Border port of two countries is being resumed formally after almost three years from wednesday . A two-way trade resumption ceremony, marking the formal resumption, was held at the Kerung-Rasuwagadhi border port on this day . Although the export of goods to China had resumed from Tuesday onwards, it is resumed on wednesday .
China is looking forward to importing more goods from Nepal too .Following the ceremony, six cargo trucks fully loaded with Nepali goods went through the port and entered China. Head of Rasuwa Custom has informed that goods worth Rs 5 million were exported on Tuesday. The port, which has been a part of political, economic and cultural exchanges between the two countries for eons, came into formal operation in 1961 and was approved as China’s national first-level port in 1987.
The port was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Before corona pandemic, an estimated 150 businesses were exporting their products through the Kerung-Rasuwagadhi boarder. Nepal imports ready-made clothes, footwear, apples, motor batteries, plastic products etc. through the port . On the other hand, Nepal exports noodles, pasta, biscuit, juice, jam, beaten rice, sugar, Nepali hog plum candy, chocolates, chewing gum, pashmina, carpets, bamboo stools, wheat, vanaspati ghee and many more items to China.
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