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Govt mandates manual verification of imported drugs and medical devices due to SWIFT 2.0 system gap

The Economic Times - Economy Trade press Published 6th September 2026 India

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Customs officers must now manually check import documents for healthcare products. This manual verification applies even to facilitated imports cleared by the risk system. The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs issued this directive on September third. A gap in the SWIFT 2.0 digital system necessitates this manual document check. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation requested this action to ensure regulatory compliance.

Publication
The Economic Times - Economy · Trade Publication
Published
6th September 2026
Original report
economictimes.indiatimes.com

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Regulation & Trade
Geography
India
Organisations
None identified
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6th September 2026 · 21:30

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Significance 2 · Moderate
Confidence 1 · Very Low

Initial Significance Moderate (26.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (21.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Very Low (17.5/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).

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Procurement Impact
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Geographic Breadth