The shrimp industry in Andhra Pradesh, which accounts for 80% of the seafood exports from India, has suffered a major setback in the last couple of months due to abnormal increase in tariffs by the United States of America, which is the largest importer of shrimps from India.

But now, there is a big relief to the shrimp industry. On Tuesday, Australia announced lifting of restrictions on shrimp imports from Andhra Pradesh and granted an initial approval for imports.

Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh, who is presently in Australia, held discussions with the Australian government and requested it to remove the restrictions.

He announced that Australia has granted an initial approval for imports of Indian shrimp, opening a conditional, time-bound window that he said would run for two

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