Rice

Import for Local Consumption

Conditions of Issue and Eligibility

Licence applicants should read carefully the conditions of issue set out on the licence forms before completing the forms and ensure that these conditions are fully complied with.

Under normal circumstances, the Director-General of Trade and Industry ("Director-General") will only issue licences to registered stockholders to cover rice imported for local consumption, and the quantity imported will be debited against the stockholder's import quantity undertaken for the relevant import period until the entire undertaken quantity has been imported in full. There are conditions attached to a licence. If necessary, the Director-General may impose special and additional conditions on a particular licence.

Imported rice must be stored at rice storage place(s) approved by the Director-General. For the list of approved rice storage places, please click here (pdf format).