AreaMyanmar

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date03/08/2015

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentExport ban

DescriptionAnnounced that, in order to avert further increases in domestic quotations in the aftermath of damages inflicted by floods, the Myanmar Rice Federation and member companies would halt all rice exports with immediate effect. Shipments abroad are not expected to be resumed until mid-September, or when new supplies arrive into the market from main-crop harvests.