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India’s imports of milk and milk products

India’s import of milk and milk based products significantly increased to 106.16 crores in 2006-07 compared to Rs. 34.56 crores in the previous year. While Butter and other fats contributed to the major share of imports (64.04%) during 2006-07, in the preceeding year the major contributor was Cheese and curd (nearly 36%). Except for Butter and milk and cream not concentrated there was a decline in imports of other milk products compared to previous years.

India’s import of milk and milk-based products, Rs. crore

Sl. No	Item	2004-05	%	2005-06	%	2006-07	%
1.	Milk and cream not concentrated (HS 0401)	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.06	0.20	0.19
2	Milk and cream concentrated (HS 0402)	4.00	7.77	6.31	18.26	8.18	7.71
3.	Buttermilk, yoghurt and fermented milk (HS 0403)	0.56	1.09	0.43	1.24	0.97	0.92
4.	Whey and whey products (HS 0404)	8.29	16.11	7.44	21.53	19.54	18.41
5.	Butter and other fats (HS 0405)	29.94	58.19	7.98	23.09	64.04	60.33
6.	Cheese and curd (HS 0406)	8.65	16.81	12.38	35.82	13.21	12.45
Total		51.45	100.00	34.56	100.00	106.16	100.00

Source: Directorate General of Foreign Trade, 2007

India’s import of poultry products

As may be seen from the following table, India’s imports of poultry products attained a peak in 2006-07 (Rs. 14.46 crores) as compared to previous years. Live birds contributed the major share of imports accounting for over 75% share. Birds, eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked constituted over 17% of imports, while Processed egg products accounted for just over 5% of the net poultry imports.

Segment-wise India’s imports of poultry products from 2003-04 to 2006-07, Rs. crore

Sl.No	Segment	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
1.	Bird egg in shell, fresh preserved or cooked (HS 0407)	0.36 (15.65%)	3.21 (86.02%)	4.35 (48.58%)	2.52 (17.45%)
2.	Bird egg not in shell and egg yolk fresh, dried cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS 0408)	1.20 (51.66%)	0.02 (0.04%)	0.10 (1.16%)	0.76 (5.27%)
3.	Meat and offal of live poultry, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS 0207)	0.04 (1.67%)	0.03 (0.83%)	0.33 (3.67%)	0.10 (0.70%)
4.	Live poultry fowl, duck, geese, turkey and guinea (HS 0105)	0.72 (31.02%)	0.47 (12.73%)	4.17 (46.58%)	11.07 (76.57%)
	Total	2.33	3.73	8.95	14.46

Source: Directorate General of Foreign Trade, 2007

India’s imports of meat and meat products

India’s import of meat and meat products have gone up from Rs. 190.32 lakhs in 2004-05 to Rs. 230.17 lakhs in 2006-07. Major share of imports during 2006-07 was contributed value added prepared meat offal (40%) followed by frozen swine meat (25%) and frozen goat meat (21%).

India’s import of meat and meat products, Rs. lakhs

Sl. No	Commodity	2004-05	%	2005-06	%	2006-07	%
1.	Frozen bovine meat (HS 0202)	48.53	25.50	-	-	8.73	3.79
2.	Fresh, Chilled, Frozen swine meat (HS 0203)	36.75	19.31	-	-	57.36	24.92
3.	Fresh, Chilled, Frozen goat meat (HS 0204)	13.27	6.97	56.35	25.35	49.39	21.46
4.	Fresh, Chilled, Frozen poultry meat/ offal (0207)	3.1	1.63	32.88	14.79	10.18	4.42
5.	Edible meat, salted, brined, dried, smoked (0210)	28.89	15.18	19.18	8.63	11.14	4.84
6.	Other preserved/prepared meat offal (HS 0208, HS 1602)	59.78	31.41	113.92	51.24	93.37	40.57
Total		190.32	100.00	222.33	100.00	230.17	100.00

Source: Directorate General of Foreign Trade, 2007

India’s imports of other animal products

The major imported items by India are Skin/hide, which accounts to nearly 37% of net import of animal products other than milk and meat products. This was followed by silk (35%) and wool (28%). The net import of these items has increased as compared to previous years and this reflected in the increase in net imports from Rs. 2,666 crores in 2004-05 to Rs. 4,544 crores during 2006-07.

India’s import of other animal products, Rs. crores

Sl. No	Items	2004-05	%	2005-06	%	2006-07	%
1.	Skin/hide (HS 41)	1068.92	40.09	1168.73	39.44	1676.66	36.89
2.	Wool/ Animal hair (HS 51)	939.36	35.23	994.51	33.56	1276.38	28.08
3.	Honey (HS 0409)	11.87	0.45	2.06	0.07	5.87	0.13
4.	Silk (HS 50)	646.23	24.24	797.77	26.92	1585.90	34.89
Total		2666.39	100.00	2963.08	100.00	4544.81	100.00

Source: Directorate General of Foreign Trade, 2007

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