The latest data on agricultural and allied trade between India and Canada is annexed (Tab 1 &2).

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1 Brief on India s agricultural and allied trade with CANADA The latest data on agricultural and allied trade between India and Canada is annexed (Tab 1 &2). 1) Analysis of agriculture and allied trade between India and Canada (a) In the year , India s total exports of agricultural and allied commodities to Canada were to the tune of US $ million. India s principal exports during this period were shrimps & prawns, rice, soya beans, guar gums, food preparations, cucmbers, seasamum seeds, etc. (b) During the same period the agricultural and allied imports from that country were of the order of US $ million. India s principal import were lintils, peas, chickpeas, oil-cake etc. Table 1- India s top agriculture and allied export to Canada (US$ million) S.No. HS Code Commodity Other shrimps and prawns : frozen Other black tea (fermented) and other partly fermented tea : Semi/wholly miled rice w/n polished/glazed Soya beans- other Seasamum seeds w/n broken Muclgs and thcknrs w/n modifd derivd from locust beans locust bean seeds/guar seeds Shrimps and prawnsnot in airtight container Other crustaceans Cucmbrs and ghrkns prpd/prsvd by acetic acid Other food preparations India s total agri export to Canada Source: D/o Commerce Table 2- India s top agriculture and allied import from Canada (US$ Million) S.No. HS Commodity Code Other : silkworm pupae : Peas (pisum sativum) dried and shld Chickpeas (garbanzos) dried and shld Beans of the spp vigna mungo,hepper or vigna radiata,wilczek dried and shld Lentils (mosur),dried and shld Othr dried and shld luguminous vegitabls Malt not roasted Lacts and lacts syrp contng 99% or mre lactscalctd on the dry matter Oil-cake and othr resdus resltng from extrctn of othr oilseed and olegns fruts Othr prpns of a kind used in anml feeding India s total agri import from Canada Source: D/o Commerce

2 2) Trends in agriculture trade between India and Canada (USD million) Agriculture Export & Import with Canada shows an increasing trend and trade deficit 3) Potential agriculture items of India s export to CANADA Canada imports the following agricultural items from other countries of the world which India has potential to export to that country. Chapter Commodity description 7 Potato,Tomatoes, onion and capsicum 8 Banana, grapes, mangos 9 Fruits of genus capsicum, ginger 11 Maize starch 17 Sugar 15 Castor oil 23 Oilcakes 52 Cotton Source: Refer Table 3 Analysis For these items, India s global exports and Canada global imports were more than US$ 5 million in However, Canada s imports of these items from India were either Nil or insignificant during the said year. 4) Average agriculture tariff Average agriculture MFN applied tariff rate of India and Canada are 33.5% and 21.8 % respectively. (Source: WTO) *****

3 Produc t code Product label Table 3- Existing and potential trade between India and Canada ' Live plants, incl. their roots, and mushroom spawn (excluding bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, ' Fresh cut roses and buds, of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes ' Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without flowers or flower buds, and grasses, mosses India's exports to Canada in 2014 in 2015 Canada's imports from world in 2014 in 2015 (USD million) India's exports to world in 2014 in ' Fresh or chilled potatoes (excluding seed) ' Tomatoes, fresh or chilled ' Fresh or chilled onions and shallots ' Fresh or chilled fruits of the genus Capsicum or Pimenta ' Fresh or chilled vegetables n.e.s ' Sweetcorn, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen ' Vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen (excluding potatoes, ' Dried onions, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared ' Dried vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not ' Dried, shelled chickpeas "garbanzos", whether or not skinned or split ' Dried, shelled beans of species "Vigna mungo [L.] Hepper or Vigna radiata [L.] Wilczek", whether ' Dried, shelled leguminous vegetables, whether or not skinned or split (excluding peas, chickpeas, ' Fresh coconuts, whether or not shelled or peeled (excluding in the inner shell "endocarp") ' Fresh or dried cashew nuts, shelled ' Fresh or dried walnuts, shelled ' Nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled (excluding coconuts, Brazil nuts, cashew ' Fresh or dried bananas (excluding plantains) ' Fresh or dried guavas, mangoes and mangosteens ' Fresh or dried oranges ' Fresh or dried lemons "Citrus limon, Citrus limonum" and limes "Citrus aurantifolia, Citrus ' Fresh grapes ' Dried grapes ' Fresh watermelons ' Fresh pawpaws "papayas" ' Fresh apples ' Fresh tamarinds, cashew apples, jackfruit, lychees, sapodillo plums, passion fruit,

4 carambola, ' Frozen strawberries, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, whether or not sweetened ' Frozen fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, whether or not sweetened ' Dried peaches, pears, papaws "papayas", tamarinds and other edible fruits (excluding nuts, ' Pepper of the genus Piper, neither crushed nor ground ' Pepper of the genus Piper, crushed or ground ' Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, dried, neither crushed nor ground ' Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, crushed or ground ' Ginger, neither crushed nor ground ' Mixtures of different types of spices ' Spices (excluding pepper of the genus Piper, fruit of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, ' Wheat and meslin (excluding seed for sowing, and durum wheat) ' Barley (excluding seed for sowing) ' Maize seed for sowing ' Maize (excluding seed for sowing) ' Husked or brown rice ' Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed ' Broken rice ' Cereals (excluding wheat and meslin, rye, barley, oats, maize, rice, grain sorghum, buckwheat, ' Wheat or meslin flour ' Cereal flours (excluding wheat, meslin and maize) ' Groats and meal of maize "corn" ' Flour, meal and powder of peas, beans, lentils and the other dried leguminous vegetables of ' Flour, meal and powder of produce of chapter "Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruits ' Maize starch ' Soya beans, whether or not broken (excluding seed for sowing) ' Groundnuts, in shell (excluding seed for sowing, roasted or otherwise cooked) ' Groundnuts, shelled, whether or not broken (excluding seed for sowing, roasted or otherwise ' Linseed, whether or not broken ' Sesamum seeds, whether or not broken ' Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken (excluding edible nuts, olives, soya ' Soya bean flour and meal ' Vegetable seeds, for sowing ' Plants, parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits, used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or ' Vegetable products n.e.s ' Coconut oil and its fractions, whether or not

5 refined, but not chemically modified (excluding ' Castor oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified ' Sesame oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified ' Fixed vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically ' Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, ' Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, ' Raw cane sugar, in solid form, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter (excluding ' Refined cane or beet sugar, containing added flavouring or colouring, in solid form ' Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form (excluding cane and beet sugar ' Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues ' Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting ' Cotton waste (excluding yarn waste, thread waste and garnetted stock) ' Cotton, carded or combed