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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. Import beyond the quantity undertaken in the import period will be counted towards the following import period and cannot be released for local sale within the current import period. 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).
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