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 2015-16, India’s total exports of agricultural and allied commodities to Canada were to
the tune of US $ 325.54 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 $ 1425.91 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 2014-15 2015-16

1 30617 Other shrimps and prawns : frozen 121.6 82.79
2 90240 Other black tea (fermented) and other partly 4.89 6.53
fermented tea :
3 100630 Semi/wholly miled rice w/n polished/glazed 40.23 41.14
4 120190 Soya beans- other 28.8 29.46
5 120740 Seasamum seeds w/n broken 12.61 8.35
6 130232 Muclgs and thcknrs w/n modifd derivd from 50.58 18.25
locust beans locust bean seeds/guar seeds
7 160521 Shrimps and prawnsnot in airtight container 8.43 5.4
8 160540 Other crustaceans 9.11 6.03
9 200110 Cucmbrs and ghrkns prpd/prsvd by acetic acid 8.35 9.84
10 210690 Other food preparations 11.45 11.56
India’s total agri export to Canada 408.54 325.54
Source: D/o Commerce

Table 2- India’s top agriculture and allied import from Canada (US$ Million)

S.No. HS Commodity 2013-14 2014-15

Code
1 51199 Other : silkworm pupae : 0.04 0.50
2 71310 Peas (pisum sativum) dried and shld 628.13 503.20
3 71320 Chickpeas (garbanzos) dried and shld 2.11 7.36
4 71331 Beans of the spp vigna mungo,hepper or vigna 0.03 0.63
radiata,wilczek dried and shld
5 71340 Lentils (mosur),dried and shld 443.44 902.89
6 71390 Othr dried and shld luguminous vegitabls 0.92
7 110710 Malt not roasted 0.68 1.27
8 170211 Lacts and lacts syrp contng 99% or mre lactscalctd on 2.68 2.17
the dry matter
9 230690 Oil-cake and othr resdus resltng from extrctn of othr oil- 2.09 1.67
seed and olegns fruts
10 230990 Othr prpns of a kind used in anml feeding 2.94 1.41

India’s total agri import from Canada 1096.38 1425.91

Source: D/o Commerce
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 Analysis
7 Potato ,Tomatoes, onion and For these items, India’s global exports and
capsicum Canada global imports were more than US$ 5
8 Banana, grapes, mangos million in 2015. However, Canada’s imports
9 Fruits of genus capsicum, ginger of these items from India were either Nil or
11 Maize starch insignificant during the said year.
17 Sugar
15 Castor oil
23 Oilcakes
52 Cotton
Source: Refer Table 3

4) Average agriculture tariff

 Average agriculture MFN applied tariff rate of India and Canada are 33.5% and 21.8 %
respectively.
(Source: WTO)

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 Table 3- Existing and potential trade between India and Canada
(USD million)
Produc Product label India's exports to Canada's India's exports to
t code Canada imports from world
world
Value in Value Value Value Value Value
2014 in in 2014 in 2015 in 2014 in 2015
2015
'060290 Live plants, incl. their roots, and mushroom 0.53 0.58 136.55 133.95 10.36 9.17
spawn (excluding bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots,
...
'060311 Fresh cut roses and buds, of a kind suitable for 0.00 0.00 64.09 58.61 7.85 8.42
bouquets or for ornamental purposes
'060490 Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, 0.64 0.68 5.94 6.00 15.01 26.13
without flowers or flower buds, and grasses,
mosses ...
'070190 Fresh or chilled potatoes (excluding seed) 0.00 0.00 85.83 73.66 108.87 53.80
'070200 Tomatoes, fresh or chilled 0.00 0.00 322.72 312.56 93.56 66.90
'070310 Fresh or chilled onions and shallots 0.12 0.14 144.77 134.37 322.15 428.38
'070960 Fresh or chilled fruits of the genus Capsicum or 0.01 0.01 242.21 235.06 30.60 30.21
Pimenta
'070999 Fresh or chilled vegetables n.e.s. 2.43 2.22 138.74 136.36 88.36 101.40
'071040 Sweetcorn, uncooked or cooked by steaming or 0.03 0.01 7.41 7.23 8.32 8.91
by boiling in water, frozen
'071080 Vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming 1.28 1.43 55.55 55.89 11.76 12.12
or by boiling in water, frozen (excluding
potatoes, ...
'071220 Dried onions, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in 2.24 2.56 15.46 16.71 107.65 129.33
powder, but not further prepared
'071290 Dried vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, 0.09 0.09 69.39 71.11 13.62 15.57
whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not
...
'071320 Dried, shelled chickpeas "garbanzos", whether 0.26 0.12 6.88 7.11 180.32 172.99
or not skinned or split
'071331 Dried, shelled beans of species "Vigna mungo 0.21 0.33 15.75 21.29 3.91 10.43
[L.] Hepper or Vigna radiata [L.] Wilczek",
whether ...
'071390 Dried, shelled leguminous vegetables, whether 1.31 1.13 5.27 5.83 13.66 10.67
or not skinned or split (excluding peas,
chickpeas, ...
'080119 Fresh coconuts, whether or not shelled or 0.12 0.33 4.64 6.00 58.24 60.09
peeled (excluding in the inner shell "endocarp")
'080132 Fresh or dried cashew nuts, shelled 5.31 3.83 81.46 95.28 861.03 804.50
'080232 Fresh or dried walnuts, shelled 0.71 0.87 91.19 80.59 32.90 20.74
'080290 Nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or 0.02 0.02 69.86 76.38 9.24 11.12
peeled (excluding coconuts, Brazil nuts,
cashew ...
'080390 Fresh or dried bananas (excluding plantains) 0.00 0.00 412.98 401.18 34.80 51.01
'080450 Fresh or dried guavas, mangoes and 3.64 3.14 88.86 87.19 196.14 183.62
mangosteens
'080510 Fresh or dried oranges 0.00 0.00 195.85 179.12 5.17 7.58
'080550 Fresh or dried lemons "Citrus limon, Citrus 0.00 0.00 116.76 114.70 10.01 10.77
limonum" and limes "Citrus aurantifolia, Citrus
...
'080610 Fresh grapes 0.00 0.00 427.47 433.97 223.73 123.20
'080620 Dried grapes 0.04 0.08 72.64 62.40 22.90 26.51
'080711 Fresh watermelons 0.00 0.03 114.18 117.82 5.44 6.92
'080720 Fresh pawpaws "papayas" 0.00 0.00 23.48 20.70 5.96 8.13
'080810 Fresh apples 0.00 0.00 250.28 197.99 5.72 6.78
'081090 Fresh tamarinds, cashew apples, jackfruit, 0.19 0.27 56.69 51.45 70.28 75.59
lychees, sapodillo plums, passion fruit,
 carambola, ...
'081110 Frozen strawberries, uncooked or cooked by 0.00 0.00 46.60 52.64 4.43 5.48
steaming or boiling in water, whether or not
sweetened
'081190 Frozen fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by 0.04 0.06 132.19 121.68 22.77 29.10
steaming or boiling in water, whether or not
sweetened ...
'081340 Dried peaches, pears, papaws "papayas", 0.08 0.09 23.86 28.40 11.77 10.60
tamarinds and other edible fruits (excluding
nuts, ...
'090411 Pepper of the genus Piper, neither crushed nor 3.15 5.23 28.54 35.19 116.96 206.21
ground
'090412 Pepper of the genus Piper, crushed or ground 0.74 1.78 25.90 31.23 66.14 95.72
'090421 Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus 0.12 0.13 4.96 5.37 342.23 392.54
Pimenta, dried, neither crushed nor ground
'090422 Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus 2.45 3.27 19.06 19.68 210.05 183.22
Pimenta, crushed or ground
'091011 Ginger, neither crushed nor ground 0.16 0.09 33.93 19.90 40.06 37.17
'091091 Mixtures of different types of spices 1.09 1.08 12.88 13.70 52.11 52.29
'091099 Spices (excluding pepper of the genus Piper, 3.57 3.94 18.69 16.17 108.73 135.33
fruit of the genus Capsicum or of the genus
Pimenta, ...
'100199 Wheat and meslin (excluding seed for sowing, 0.00 0.00 24.82 30.43 1014.26 152.33
and durum wheat)
'100390 Barley (excluding seed for sowing) 0.00 0.00 6.99 21.99 122.41 9.94
'100510 Maize seed for sowing 0.14 0.00 228.23 129.65 31.89 20.48
'100590 Maize (excluding seed for sowing) 10.10 2.38 182.60 242.27 808.46 197.59
'100620 Husked or brown rice 0.21 0.20 50.37 40.30 25.85 8.73
'100630 Semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or 39.07 43.56 283.06 277.07 7537.68 5976.79
not polished or glazed
'100640 Broken rice 0.04 0.02 20.09 18.65 279.82 321.59
'100890 Cereals (excluding wheat and meslin, rye, 0.16 0.11 10.49 7.31 9.43 9.18
barley, oats, maize, rice, grain sorghum,
buckwheat, ...
'110100 Wheat or meslin flour 2.22 2.91 46.10 48.48 136.41 122.19
'110290 Cereal flours (excluding wheat, meslin and 0.45 0.30 19.82 19.29 7.91 8.32
maize)
'110313 Groats and meal of maize "corn" 0.00 0.05 10.59 10.23 18.87 23.56
'110610 Flour, meal and powder of peas, beans, lentils 0.55 0.51 3.44 7.15 9.47 10.68
and the other dried leguminous vegetables of ...
'110630 Flour, meal and powder of produce of chapter 8 0.32 0.25 8.56 8.96 21.36 22.90
"Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruits ...
'110812 Maize starch 0.01 0.00 26.60 30.12 79.95 76.54
'120190 Soya beans, whether or not broken (excluding 25.45 32.85 181.25 140.49 147.11 143.61
seed for sowing)
'120241 Groundnuts, in shell (excluding seed for 0.00 0.00 7.80 8.45 13.40 18.36
sowing, roasted or otherwise cooked)
'120242 Groundnuts, shelled, whether or not broken 0.07 0.06 109.14 106.88 657.53 622.47
(excluding seed for sowing, roasted or
otherwise ...
'120400 Linseed, whether or not broken 0.32 0.97 11.74 9.78 13.33 11.30
'120740 Sesamum seeds, whether or not broken 13.41 9.48 21.93 16.53 813.60 477.62
'120799 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not 0.96 1.36 25.52 25.18 22.75 30.13
broken (excluding edible nuts, olives, soya ...
'120810 Soya bean flour and meal 2.18 0.47 20.72 12.57 112.03 77.25
'120991 Vegetable seeds, for sowing 0.01 0.00 85.16 97.24 44.63 41.29
'121190 Plants, parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits, 1.72 2.43 72.17 73.53 238.71 237.30
used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or ...
'140490 Vegetable products n.e.s 0.10 0.14 9.79 9.74 28.96 26.69
'151319 Coconut oil and its fractions, whether or not 0.17 0.16 57.86 69.57 22.18 23.16
 refined, but not chemically modified
(excluding ...
'151530 Castor oil and fractions thereof, whether or not 0.30 0.29 7.37 7.66 654.39 690.08
refined, but not chemically modified
'151550 Sesame oil and its fractions, whether or not 0.14 0.26 12.77 11.08 16.12 17.95
refined, but not chemically modified
'151590 Fixed vegetable fats and oils and their 0.16 0.29 40.60 52.71 20.89 25.23
fractions, whether or not refined, but not
chemically ...
'151620 Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, 0.18 0.11 80.04 65.40 83.09 63.18
partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified,
...
'151800 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their 0.00 0.00 17.16 17.54 29.32 32.57
fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated,
sulphurised, ...
'170114 Raw cane sugar, in solid form, not containing 0.39 0.51 507.53 348.39 320.46 137.00
added flavouring or colouring matter
(excluding ...
'170191 Refined cane or beet sugar, containing added 0.00 0.10 6.22 8.19 2.85 6.55
flavouring or colouring, in solid form
'170199 Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure 0.64 0.73 17.51 19.74 693.28 1008.94
sucrose, in solid form (excluding cane and beet
sugar ...
'230310 Residues of starch manufacture and similar 0.01 0.00 60.38 51.06 8.20 6.87
residues
'230400 Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or 0.62 2.09 494.14 318.55 1180.72 436.59
not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting ...
'520299 Cotton waste (excluding yarn waste, thread 0.01 0.00 5.54 5.86 35.71 32.14
waste and garnetted stock)
'520300 Cotton, carded or combed 0 0 365 682 826 637