Rice

Application to be a registered Rice Stockholder

Import Quantity for Each Import Period

Each calendar year is divided into four import periods: January to March, April to June, July to September and October to December, unless otherwise specified by the Director-General of Trade and Industry ("Director-General").

As a condition of registration, each stockholder should give an undertaking (on an undertaking form (pdf format)) to import a certain quantity of rice for the following import period before the commencement of each import period and within the time limit as specified by the Director-General. The stockholder is required to import within the specified import period the undertaken quantity (on top of the reserve stock) so as to ensure an overall stable supply of rice. In case of emergency, the Director-General may require a stockholder to import and hold in stock a quantity of rice exceeding the undertaken import quantity for a particular import period.