NINETY-SEVEN agricultural products, including rice and pulses, will be allowed for export under the automatic licence system, according to the Department of Trade’s Export-Import Bulletin 2/2025 dated 9 June.
This system will automatically issue licences without the need for the department to review them, while the non-automatic system requires traders to first apply for the licence to get reviewed.
The DOT has been allowing all goods exported from seaports and border trade posts only after applying for an export licence, but to facilitate post-earthquake export activities, it has changed to the automatic licence system for smooth export operations, it said.
Items changed from the non-automatic licence system to the automated one include 58 items of garlic, onion and pulses, 25 items of rice, corn, millet, wheat and 14 items of oilseeds. These 97 lines in HS Code 10 Digits will be allowed to be operated on Myanmar Tradenet 2.0 from 15 June 2025 until 31 August 2025, under the automatic licence system.
According to the Export-Import Bulletin 4/2024 dated 16 July 2024, the ministry previously switched to the non-automatic licence system for 1460 items in HS Code 10 Digits, which had been among the commodity lines allowed under the automatic system as per the Export-Import Bulletin 9/2023. — Htun Htun/ZN
