All types of rice and vegetable oil exempted from import duties
SocietyUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/
A bill on exemption from customs tax has been adopted at the plenary meeting of the session of the
Parliament convened today, December 4.
In aims of ensuring stability
of food supply in unpredictable situation of the coronavirus pandemic, the law exempts all types of rice (white rice, buckwheat,
millet and others), vegetable oil, food wheat, wheat seed, oily plant, raw
vegetable oil as well as hay, all types of fodder and fodder seed, which
will be required to overcome wintering and spring of 2020-2021 without any
barrier, from customs import duties.
45 of 53 members who attended the meeting or 84.9 percent of MPs backed to approve the bill on exemption from customs tax.