By Commodity News Service Canada
Winnipeg, Nov. 27 (CNS) -Grain exporters in Australia have
asked Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to intervene to delay
India’s implementation of the 50 per cent import tariff on peas,
according to the Weekly Times. Pulse Australia, Grain Growers
Limited, Grain Trade Australia, the Australian Grain Exporters
Association and Grain Industry Market Access Forum say the the
tariff will have a negative impact on Australian pea prices. The
new tariff comes at a time when Turnbull had commissioned the
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lifting the economic partnership between the two countries to a
new level.
A group of bipartisan senators in Montana have asked United
States federal trade officials to confront India over the 50 per
cent pea tariff, according to the Missoulian. The senators are
arguing that the imposition of the tariff without notice has
caused cash dry pea pries to collapse in the U.S., as well
exporters will suffer financial hardship due to the tariff. The
senators are asking that India reverse its tariff decision or
delay it for 90 days. If that does not work the senators are
asking the United States Department of Agriculture to buy the
peas intended for India during the current marketing year as
surplus commodities.
