The purpose of a MTA is to safeguard the interest of the sending party. to prevent the receiver to commercially distribute it. In India , u need to route all import and export request through IBSC of your institute- Institutional Bio Safety Committee. But if it is a PCR control cloned in some E.coli vector or non pathogenic strains then u can ask the sender to send it as a gift so that it wont be held back here in customs. If the sender insists on MTA then u can get its signed by ur PI or ur director and proceed without IBSC as i guess it is not yet constituted in ur campus. how do you dispose EtBR solutions and gels treated with EtBR?