India-Senegal Trade Brief
Agriculture & Allied Trade between India and Senegal
1. Exports: In the year 2018-19, India’s total export of agricultural and allied commodities to Senegal was of the order of US $ 249.43 million, approximately 14 % lower than the previous year. (Table -1)
a) Major Exports: Broken rice, Semi/wholly milled rice, tobacco, boneless meat of bovine animal, coffee, other black tea, sweet biscuits, mustard seeds, dried onions, etc.
b) Minor Exports: Cucumber and gherkins, maize, potatoes, turmeric, refined sugar, dried grapes, fruits of the genus capsicum, vegetable seeds etc.
2. Potential Items of Export: Potatoes, onions and shallots, green tea, wheat and meslin, maize, vegetable seeds, cane/beet sugar, food preparations n.e.s., oilcake, etc. (Table -3) 3. Imports: In the year 2018-19, India’s total import of agricultural and allied commodities from
Senegal was of the order of US $ 31.68 million, approximately 16 % lower than the previous year. (Table -2)
a) Major Imports: Fresh/dried cashen nuts, raw cotton, gum arabic, other natural gums, other seeds of plant, etc.
b) Minor Imports: NIL
Table 1- India’s top Agri and Allied Export to Senegal
(Value in USD million)
S.No. HS Code Commodity 2017-18 2018-19
1
100640 BROKEN RICE 244.81 203.22
100630 SEMI/WHOLLY MILED RICE W/N POLISHED/GLAZED 18.53 17.923
20230 BONELESS MEAT OF BOVINE ANIMAL 7.93 11.114
210111 EXTRCTS ESSNCS AND CNCNTRTS OF COFFE 5.74 5.375
90240 OTHER BLACK TEA (FERMENTED) AND OTHER PARTLYFERMENTED TEA : 1.05 3.11
6
170490 OTHER SUGR CNFCTNRY NT CONTAINING COCOA 1.86 1.937
190531 SWEET BISCUITS 3.04 1.938
180690 OTHER : OF CHOCOLATE AND OTHER FOOD PREPRATION 0.61 0.589
120750 MUSTARD SEEDS W/N BROKEN 0.61 0.5310
71220 ONIONS DRIED 0.58 0.46India's Agri and allied export to Senegal 289.28 249.43
Source: Department of Commerce
Table 2- India’s top Agri and Allied Imports from Senegal
(Value in USD million)
S.No. HS Code Commodity 2017-18 2018-19
1
80131 CASHEN NUTS FRESH/DRIED IN SHELL 35.88 23.682
520100 COTTON, NOT CARDED OR COMBED 3.373
130120 GUM ARABIC 1.36 2.584
130190 OTHER : NATURAL GUMS 0.34 2.045
121190 OTHER : SEEDS OF PLANT 0.01India's Agri and allied Import from Senegal 37.58 31.68 Source: Department of Commerce
2) Potential agriculture items of India’s export to Senegal
Senegal imports the following agriculture items from other countries in the world which India has also potential to export.
Chapter Commodity Description Analysis
07 Fresh Potatoes, Fresh onions and shallots
For these items, India’s global exports and Senegal’s global imports were more than US$ 8 million in 2018. However, Senegal’s import of these items from India were either
Nil or insignificant during the said year.
09 Green Tea
10 Wheat and Meslin, Maize 12 Vegetable seeds
17 Cane or beet sugar, 21 Food preparations n.e.s.
23 Oilcake, Preparation of a kind used in animal feeding
Source: Refer Table 3
Senegal may explore the possibility of sourcing these agricultural items from India.
Sanitary Phyto-sanitary (SPS) and other requirements in respect of these products may be sought
from Senegal.
Table 3: India's potential agriculture exports to Senegal
Unit: US$ million
Product
code Product label
India's exports to Senegal
Senegal's imports from world
India's exports to world Value in
2017
Value in 2018
Value in 2017
Value in 2018
Value in 2017
Value in 2018
'030389 Frozen fish, n.e.s. 0 0.217 10.699 52.923 477.738 402.172
'040690
Cheese (excluding fresh cheese, incl. whey cheese, curd, processed cheese, blue-veined cheese ...
0 0 8.845 8.787 17.484 15.413
'040711 Fertilised eggs for incubation, of
domestic fowls 0 0 11.831 12.124 15.09 16.463
'070190 Fresh or chilled potatoes
(excluding seed) 0.042 0 14.871 8.414 57.943 56.404
'070310 Fresh or chilled onions and
shallots 0 0 41.222 31.299 423.626 421.172
'090220 Green tea in immediate packings
of > 3 kg 0 0.003 5.546 9.426 13.65 14.131
'100199 Wheat and meslin (excluding seed
for sowing, and durum wheat) 0.006 0 61.233 73.874 54.897 46.088 '100590 Maize (excluding seed for sowing) 0 0.003 58.32 82.337 121.044 193.66 '120991 Vegetable seeds, for sowing 0.062 0.075 6.633 8.713 66.754 96.911 '151620
Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, ...
0 0 15.722 17.661 73.266 76.475
'170199
Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form (excluding cane and beet sugar ...
0.001 0.072 114.585 46.694 882.828 856.029
'190110
Food preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale, of flour, groats, meal, starch or ...
0 0 8.935 8.908 40.922 38.83
'190190
Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing ...
0 0.001 133.664 139.106 62.08 69.918 '210690 Food preparations, n.e.s. 0.005 0.02 19.59 21.811 215.809 275.654
'220300 Beer made from malt 0 0 9.44 10.531 46.177 42.049
'230230
Bran, sharps and other residues of wheat, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from ...
0 0 2.208 8.425 15.45 8.87
'230400
Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting ...
0 0 20.031 20.224 836.252 884.35
'230990
Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excluding dog or cat food put up for retail ...
0.043 0.03 8.689 9.329 225.465 258.177 Source: ITC Trade Map
