🍜 Exporting instant noodles from Nepal

Packaged noodles are one of Nepal's manufactured-food success stories. Markets and food-safety steps.

$13MNepal exports (2024)
$5.8BWorld market
$2.67/kgWorld price

About the product

Instant and packaged noodles are made by Nepal's larger food manufacturers and have built a real export presence, helped by diaspora demand and brand recognition.

Nepal’s position

India, Japan and Australia lead — a mix of regional trade and diaspora markets. For a processed food, destination food-safety and labelling compliance is the make-or-break step.

How to export from Nepal

  1. Register for an EXIM code — One-time exporter registration with the Department of Customs.
  2. Food-safety certification — From the Department of Food Technology & Quality Control (DFTQC); destination food-import and labelling rules (and halal where relevant).
  3. Certificate of origin — Chamber/TEPC.
  4. File the export declaration — Clear through customs.

Where Nepal sells it (2024)

Open the live Export ExplorerHS 1902.30 — duty & classification

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Trade figures are indicative (BACI / UN Comtrade, 2024). For official 8-digit, fiscal-year figures see the Department of Customs and TEPC.