Customs department assures steps to check human hair smuggling: Industry

Customs department has assured human hair exporters to take steps to check smuggling of the product from India with a view to boosting growth of domestic players, the industry said Tuesday.

Member of Human Hair and Hair Products Manufacturers and Exporters Association of India Tuesday held a meeting with officials of customs department and apprised them about the issue of smuggling of raw human hair to countries like Myanmar and China, which is hurting Indian industries and exports.

"They have assured that soon they will take steps to check the smuggling. We provided names of the people involved in the illegal exports," member of the association Sunil Eamani told reporters here.

They have also suggested the commerce ministry to prohibit export of raw materials to increase availability of the commodity for domestic players.

Chennai-based human hair exporter Allure Director P Sathish Gandhi said smuggling is hitting the domestic industry severely and, availability of adequate raw ...