China has resumed one-way trade via Nepal-China Hilsa-Purang border port. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the border port was reopened for the one-way trade on December 26.
An official at the ministry said that the two-way trade via this border point is expected to resume soon.
Nepal's trade with China remained badly affected for the past three years after the closure of the border port. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, China had begun placing restrictions on the border port with Nepal.
Earlier today, Rasuwagadhi-Kerung port between Nepal and the People’s Republic of China resumed its operation for two-way trade.
The Department of Commerce of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China organized an official ceremony in Kerung to observe the opening of the port.
"The resumption of the ports is expected to augment bilateral trade between Nepal and China," the ministry said in a press statement.
Nepal imports ready-made clothes, footwear, apples, motor batteries, plastic products via this border point while the country exports pashmina, carpets, bamboo stools, wheat, ghee, noodles, pasta, biscuit, juice, jam, beaten rice, sugar, hog plum candy and chocolates to China.
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