Commerce ministry notifies decision to exempt the ban on export of processed and value added food items

05 Feb 2013 Evaluate

The commerce ministry has notified the government’s decision that export of processed and value added agriculture products such as wheat flour, butter, cheese, and oats will not be banned even though shipments of basic items are not allowed.

Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) listed 10 processed and value-added agricultural products that would be exempt from export curbs with immediate effect. These include wheat flour, cereal flour, cereal groats and meal pellets, milk products (including casein), butter, cheese and curd, value added products of onion, peanut butter and other cereal items.

DGFT in its notification said that “export of above processed and value added agricultural products will be exempted from any restriction even in the event of restriction/ban on the export of basic farm produce”.

The exports of processed and/or value added products constitute a very miniscule portion of the overall exports and hence their continuation would not affect the availability in the domestic market. However, the government had also, last week, allowed export of premium edible oils from the country even as it kept the ban of export of such oils in their raw or basic form.

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