G/STR/Q1/IND/15  
 
17 May 2018  
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Working Party on State Trading Enterprises  Original: English  
 
STATE TRADING  
QUESTIONS FROM AUSTRAL IA TO INDIA  
REGARDING  INDIA'S LAST NOTIFIC ATION  IN 20121 
The following communication, dated 16 May 2018, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Australia.  
 
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Australia notes that India last submitted a notification of its State Trading Enterprises in 2012 
(G/STR/N/14/IND). In order to understand more about the operations of its State Trading 
Enterprises, Australia asks the following questions.  
 
Export Operations of the Food Corporation o f India and associated entities  
 
Australia notes that in 2017 -18 the Food Corporation of India reported exports of Wheat and Rice 
from FCI stockholdings of the following quantities (data retrieved from 
http://fci.gov.in/sales.php?view=36  on 8 May 2018)  
 
1. Wheat – 110,000 tonnes exported from the state of Gujarat  
2. Rice – 2,000 tonnes exported from the state of Gujarat  
 
Question 1  
 
Australia requests answers to the following questions:  
 
a. To which destin ations were these exports sent to, please list by destination country and 
quantity?  
b. At what price were the exports made at – please provide details by shipment and also 
clarify whether the price is at FOB, CIF or another price point?  
c. Were there any further  exports made of publicly held stocks of rice or wheat made by 
either FCI, state based agencies, or other entities which may have been granted trading 
rights by the Government of India (e.g. the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing 
Federation of Ind ia (NAFED) and the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC))? 
Please provide details, quantities, and prices of any such shipments . 
Question 2  
 
Australia notes that India has not listed the Food Corporation of India as a State Trading 
Enterprise with export privileges in its last notification in 2012. Given that the Food Corporation of 
India is engaged in export operations can India please provide the following details, or provide a 
new notification which includes the following : 
 
a. all commodities for wh ich FCI has be en granted privileges to export  
                                                
1 G/STR/N/14/IND, dated 30 November 2012.  G/STR/Q1/IND/15  
 
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  b. the purpose for granting FCI privileges to export those commodities  
c. statistical information listing all export activities of the FCI, including average 
procurement price, average representative domestic sales p rice and average export price  
Exports of Pulses from India  
 
Australia notes that in November 2017 the Government of India removed bans on the exportation 
of all forms of pulses.  
 
Question 3  
 
Australia requests answers to the following questions  
 
a. Has the G overnment of India provided trading rights to export pulses to any Centre or 
State based government agency, or any other entity authorised to procure pulses on 
behalf of the Government for public stockholding or food security purposes (i.e. NAFED 
and SFAC) ? 
b. Does the Government of India maintain any prohibitions on the export of publicly held 
stocks of Pulses?  
c. Have any exports occurred of publicly held stocks of pulses?  
d. If so please provide details of the quantity of stock exported, destinations, and prices at 
which the exports were made, and statistical information outlining the average 
procurement price for the stocks, the average representative domestic sales price  and 
average export price.  
 
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