Pakistan to open door to Indian pepper ?

Today on the The Hindu Business Line

...On the anticipation that Pakistan pepper market would open up for Indian product soon, north Indian buyers came forward buying futures at premium prices. There is said to be a move from the Indian side to get the import duty reduced by Pakistan for Indian pepper at least at par with that levied on Vietnam pepper. Currently, the duty is 32 per cent where as it is 5 per cent for Vietnamese product...

Vietnam leads pepper exports

Vietnam leads pepper exports

(ICARD-12/05/06) The International Pepper Community (IPC) reports a sharp rise in Vietnamese pepper exports over the last three months. In the first three months of 2006, Vietnam exported 26,574 tonnes of pepper, an increase of 42 per cent against the same period last year. Vietnam now produced 60 per cent of the pepper exported worldwide. *

India has become one of the biggest importers of Vietnamese pepper. In March, the country imported about 1,902 tonnes of pepper from Vietnam, 87 tonnes of which was white pepper.

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