The Hindu Business Line : Agri-Biz & Commodities

Aug. 3 :Customs duty on imported crude palm stearin (CPS), a key raw material for manufacture of soaps as also fatty acids and fatty alcohols, slashed to 10 per cent from 12.5 per cent from Aug. 2.

Aug. 8: In a setback of sorts to the Uttar Pradesh Government’s plans to privatise all its State-owned and cooperative sugar mills, the Allahabad High Court orders an interim stay of the entire sale process.

Aug. 10: MCX replaces wheat, urad and rubber with mentha oil, potato, cardamom and chana in the composition of its benchmark commodity index, Comdex.

Aug. 17: ITC Ltd acquires the entire share capital of Technico Pty Ltd of Australia for an undisclosed sum.

Aug. 23: The State Trading Corporation of India floats a tender to import an unspecified quantity of wheat on Government account to be delivered between Oct. and Dec..

The first ever e-auction in cardamom officially launched at Bodinayakannur by the Union Minister of State for Commerce, Mr Jairam Ramesh.

Aug. 29: The State Trading Corporation of India’s tender to import an unspecified quantity of wheat on Government account attracts bids for 5.30 lakh tonnes from eight players, quoting rates between $385 and $434 a tonne, cost and freight.

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