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The Dollar Business Bureau The trade policy of India on agriculture has a pro-customer prejudice which indirectly taxes farmers by putting export curbs on different crops, according to a study. The domestic prices of major agricultural items were below that of export prices in most of the years during the period 2004-2014, a joint study by The World Bank and Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) on Tuesday revealed. Policy makers have used preventive trade policies to maintain the domestic prices low in most of the years, the study found after an analysis of domestic prices deviation from global prices. The study on ‘Price Distortions in Indian Agriculture’, analysed global and domestic prices of 15 agri commodities for a 10-year period between ...

The Dollar Business Bureau The Central Government of India has agreed to allow the export of 11714.45 MT of potato, 19466.36 MT of onion, 67640.24 MT of rice, 59442.17 MT of wheat flour and 11706.30 MT of sugar for the FY of 2017-18 to the Republic of Maldives as per the bilateral trade agreement signed between the Government of India and the Government of Maldives.  A directive by the DGFT via notification no., 12/2015-2020 dated June 27, 2017 was issued saying this is effective from April. The notification also clearly states that the exports of these essential commodities to Maldives are exempted from any existing or future restriction/prohibition on export. The government periodically imposes minimum export price on essential agri commodities in order ...

We all have heard and read exporters' success stories. At times, we do stumble upon a trader's story too. But Vaishali Sarwankar's case is exceptional. She is not just an ordinary trader, but one of the few Indian women who are into commodity trading in the international market! Vanita Peter D'souza | March 2016 Issue | The Dollar Business Vaishali Sarwankar, Head – International Trade & Director, Atlantic Industrial & Trading Pte Ltd. One moment, she appears to be the girl next door, and the very next, she is the Director of a company with an annual turnover of $500 million. One could simply introduce Vaishali Sarwankar as a lady who has not just carved herself niche in the male-dominated commodity trading business, ...