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Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 25, 2026 - 8 min read
DGFT Notification No. 30/2026-27 puts FEMA-compliant rupee export realisation on par with foreign currency realisation for FTP benefits and export obligation fulfilment. The trade policy moved, insurance schedules did not, and the gap sits in the currency of the credit limit.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 23, 2026 - 10 min read
Qatar Islamic Insurance Group has been licensed at GIFT-IFSC as the 25th international player writing Indian reinsurance business, entering as a Category 3 IFSC Insurance Office. Retakaful runs on risk sharing rather than risk transfer, and that changes what a cedant should ask before putting it on a layer.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 13, 2026 - 11 min read
Proclamation 11002 put a 25 per cent Section 232 duty on certain advanced semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and their derivative products from 15 January 2026. India's smartphone exports ran at about Rs 2.6 trillion in FY26, so an expansion of the derivative list is a balance-sheet event rather than a customs footnote.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 12, 2026 - 11 min read
Container capacity stranded by congestion hit a record 4.31 million TEU in late August 2026 and Asia to US East Coast spot rates reached USD 9,791 per FEU. On a CIF or CIP contract freight is part of the sum insured, so an open cover declaring last year's freight assumption is under-declared by more than the customary 10 per cent uplift can absorb.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 11, 2026 - 8 min read
The 26 August 2026 Trishuli debris flow produced 583 claims worth NPR 25.87 billion against a US$2.56 billion economic loss, carried in part by Oriental Insurance's Nepal unit and a panel that includes GIC Re. Indian reinsurer security files built only on Indian catastrophe zones miss the exposure.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 7, 2026 - 10 min read
RELIEF Component II lifted ECGC commercial-risk cover to 95 per cent on West Asia shipments, with the government paying the enhancement fee. Eligibility ends with bill of lading dates of 30 September 2026, and so do the extended RoDTEP rates. Here is which shipments still qualify and what the step back to 90 per cent costs.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 5, 2026 - 10 min read
An Indian official said in August 2026 that India will put a vessel on the Northern Sea Route next year. Indian cargo and hull wordings treat high-latitude navigation as an excluded trading limit, not a priced risk, and an exporter offered an Arctic transit needs to work through four clauses before the fixture is signed.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 4, 2026 - 10 min read
Vizhinjam began direct export-import operations on 18 August 2026, letting South Indian shippers drop the Colombo or Singapore feeder leg. That routing change breaks three assumptions in most Indian marine open covers: the named ports schedule, the transit clause and the per-location accumulation limit. What to endorse before the first sailing.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 3, 2026 - 11 min read
The August 2026 White House shadow-transhipment report placed India in its highest risk tier and named Pune, Chennai and Gujarat. Indian coverage went to the diplomacy. The insurance question nobody asked is which policy, if any, responds when US Customs holds a consignment on an origin-fraud suspicion.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 1, 2026 - 11 min read
A legal reading published in late July 2026 argues India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme issues credits rather than charging a carbon price, so it may not qualify for the Article 9 deduction. If that holds, the CBAM charge from 2027 sits on the exporter's margin, and that has direct consequences for EU supply contracts and trade credit limits.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - September 1, 2026 - 11 min read
India landed in the lower US tariff tier, but competing origins hold quota exemptions India does not have. The commercial risk is the US buyer who refuses goods already cut and made, and most Indian trade credit policies attach only at shipment.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 31, 2026 - 9 min read
The Supreme Court held in Oriental Insurance v. Durg Roadways that a motor policy's Limitations as to Use clause imposes no territorial limit, so cover followed a valid permit into Nepal without any extra premium. What that protects, and what it does not.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 29, 2026 - 9 min read
Marsh's Q2 2026 index puts the India, Middle East and Africa composite down 16 per cent while casualty rose 2 per cent globally on US claims severity. An Indian exporter renewing property and a US products liability tower in the same quarter will watch the two move in opposite directions.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 29, 2026 - 10 min read
IFSCA has floated regulations for mutual insurers, mutual reinsurers and Protection and Indemnity clubs in the IFSC. Here is what mutuality means for an Indian shipowner or charterer, and why GIFT City is the only plausible domicile.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 29, 2026 - 10 min read
US tariffs on imported generics are set to rise to 100 per cent in 2028 and 200 per cent thereafter, and Indian formulators are already costing out US plants. A US site needs admitted paper, statutory workers compensation, and a products liability tower built for American defence costs.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 28, 2026 - 11 min read
Russia now supplies a record share of India's crude by value, and a US bill would allow tariffs of up to 100 per cent on major buyers of Russian energy. The sanctions limitation and exclusion clause sitting in Indian marine and trade credit wordings decides who carries the loss when a counterparty, vessel or bank is designated mid-voyage.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 27, 2026 - 10 min read
From 30 December 2026 Indian exporters of leather, rubber, coffee and wood products must produce plot-level geolocation and proof of deforestation-free origin or the goods do not enter the EU. A refused consignment is a documentation failure, and marine cargo will not respond to it.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 26, 2026 - 11 min read
War risk additional premium on a Gulf transit has gone from a rounding error to a seven-figure line item, and most Indian sale contracts never allocated it. Here is who bears it under CIF, CFR, FOB and DAP, and the clauses to insert before the next fixture.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 25, 2026 - 11 min read
IFSCA's draft Managing General Agents Regulations 2026 set a USD 500,000 capital floor, cap binding authority at 10 per cent of prior-year gross written premium, and bar MGAs from binding reinsurance. Whether that produces specialty capacity or a shopfront turns on the cap.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 24, 2026 - 9 min read
With mainstream owners refusing Strait of Hormuz transits, sanctions-adjacent and overage tonnage is filling the gap. Indian importers of crude, LPG, fertiliser and petrochemicals need to check the Institute Classification Clause in their marine cargo open cover before the bill of lading is issued.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 23, 2026 - 10 min read
The Digital Omnibus moved the EU AI Act's high-risk compliance date to December 2027, but Article 50 transparency duties applied on 2 August 2026 as scheduled. Indian GCCs and IT suppliers signed contracts against the original timeline, and the mismatch now runs through their warranties, indemnities, and tech E&O cover.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 21, 2026 - 9 min read
On 21 August 2026, Steadfast Group agreed terms for a takeover by an Amwins, Dragoneer and KKR-backed consortium at roughly US$5.4 to 5.5 billion. The deal puts a hard price on the broker network model and gives Indian mid-market brokers a live reference point for what buyers actually pay for, and what they discount.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 21, 2026 - 10 min read
Pirates seized two vessels in four days in August 2026 with 22 Indian nationals aboard. Cargo and hull war risk get the attention, but the slow, expensive exposure is the crew: wages in captivity, ransom response, and the manning agent's own liability.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
Global & Cross-Border Insurance - August 19, 2026 - 10 min read
The US safeguard on quartz surface products took effect on 15 August 2026 at 25% in-quota and 50% over-quota, and India received no country-specific quota despite sending 72.5% of its quartz surface-product exports to the US. For engineered-stone makers in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Telangana, the insurance questions now run from trade credit limits on US distributors to slabs sitting unsold in US warehouses.
By Sarvada Editorial Team
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