India continued to report trade with North Korea throughout 2018, despite announcing last year that it would prohibit all exports to the DPRK except food and medicine.

Figures collated by the ITC Trade Map also show that some of the shipments appear to consist of commodities sanctioned by the UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions in 2017.

India has historically been one of the North’s largest trade partners, though its import and export figures are also be prone to confusion with South Korea, a mistake that would artificially inflate the scale two countries’ trade relations.