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Allocation of sugar quantity for export under tariff rate quota, USDA

The Dollar Business Bureau The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) had announced a non-country specific tariff rate quota (TRQ) for exporters of refined sugar from World Trade Organization (WTO) countries. Refined sugar of 1,82,000 metric tons raw value (MTRV) has been allocated for the US fiscal year of 2018, which begins on Oct 1, 2017 till September 30, 2018. Of the 182000 MTRV of sugar, 22000 MTRV of sugar (which also includes 1656 MTRV of specialty sugar) and an additional 160000, TRV for specialty sugars. Imports of organic and other specialty sugars are administered on a first-come-first serve basis in 5 tranches, as detailed below in the USTR report. On October 2, 2017, under the first tranche, 1656 MTRV of all types of specialty sugar ...

Marginal growth in core sector industries; Cotton sowing pushes up Kharif sowing acreage; Forex reserves hit life-time highs

By Abin Daya Change is an unavoidable part of life - and of doing business. One of the biggest changes to the way we do business happened last Friday, with the rolling out of the GST. Yes, there will be disruptions in the short term and the cost of compliance will go up. Also, many small businesses will lose the tax arbitrage that enabled them to price below that of the larger companies. It will also increase the financing cost of business, particularly for those engaged in foreign trade. Speaking of financing, even that is not going to be easy. While credit growth is down because of low credit demand driven by the leveraged position of corporates combined with muted demand, even where businesses ...

Nikkei PMI has positive news for Indian manufacturing and services

By Abin Daya It just might be that things are slowly falling in place for the Indian economy. The Nikkei Purchasing Manager’s Index for Manufacturing and Services has positive news, both in performance and sentiments. What we now need is better capacity utilisation leading to improvement in private investment. A good monsoon this year should create that. Some indication of that is also seen in the performance of the infrastructure industries during the month of March. Performance improved from 1% growth in Feb, to 5% growth in Mar, though it was far from the 9.3% growth achieved a year back. While growth for the full year improved from the previous FY, the fertiliser industry seems to have been badly affected. One topic that ...

Indias core sector growth in January slips to 5-month low

The Dollar Business Bureau India’s core industries grew at a slower pace in January as a contraction in the production of refinery products, cement and fertilizer weighed. The overall growth fell to a five-month low at 3.4% in the month, the slowest since August last year, when the sectors had witnessed a growth rate of 3.2%. In January 2016, the rate of growth in eight infrastructure sectors of coal, natural gas, crude oil, refinery products, steel, fertilisers, electricity and cement was 5.7%, while in December 2016, it was 5.6%. The production of refinery products, cement and fertiliser declined by 1.5%, 13.3% and 1.6%, respectively, in the month of January. Coal and electricity sectors expanded at 4.8% during the month under review, compared to 7.9% ...

Domestic production of crude oil, natural gas falls in October

The Dollar Business Bureau Overall refinery production for the period April-October 2015 was 130.87 million tonnes, which was 1.35% higher than the target for the period   India’s domestic production of crude oil fell by 2.08% to 3.151 million tonnes in October as compared to 3.218 million tonnes in the same month last year. Overall crude oil production during April-October 2015 was 1.49% higher over its target to 21.832 million tonnes and 0.06% higher as compared to the corresponding period of 2014. Natural gas production in October also registered a marginal decline after cloaking growth in the previous two months. It fell by 1.82% to 2.795 billion cubic metre from 2.846 billion cubic metre in October last year. “Cumulative natural gas ...