# India doubles wheat import tax, imposes 50 per cent tax on peas - Grainews

> India doubled its import duty on wheat to 20 percent and imposed a 50 percent import tax on peas, effective November 8, 2017. The government aims to support local prices after successive droughts and a good harvest, and India had imported 5.75 million tonnes of wheat in 2016/17.

- Date: 2017-11-08 · published 2017-11-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region India · magnitude high
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/67953-india-doubles-wheat-import-tax-imposes-50-per-cent-tax-on-peas-grainews
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

A 20 percent wheat duty makes imports uneconomic for many buyers, which cuts India's import demand and weighs on world wheat prices, especially Black Sea supplies.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2017-11-08 | [India imposing 50 percent duty on peas and 20 percent duty on wheat - RealAgriculture](https://feedsoft.ai/events/67959-india-imposing-50-percent-duty-on-peas-and-20-percent-duty-on-wheat.md) | +1.2% | +1.3% |
| WHEAT | 2017-11-10 | [India's wheat import tariff weighs on prices for Black](https://feedsoft.ai/events/67961-india-s-wheat-import-tariff-weighs-on-prices-for-black.md) | +0.9% | +1.0% |
| WHEAT | 2026-04-20 | [India doubles wheat export quota to 5 million tonnes - The HinduBusinessLine](https://feedsoft.ai/events/19701-india-doubles-wheat-export-quota-to-5-million-tonnes-the-hindubusinessline.md) | -0.3% | +0.0% |
| WHEAT | 2017-08-12 | [No plans to raise wheat import duty from current 10 per cent: Paswan \| No plans to raise wheat import duty from current 10 per cent: Paswan](https://feedsoft.ai/events/69412-no-plans-to-raise-wheat-import-duty-from-current-10-per-cent-paswan-no-plans-to.md) | +0.4% | -0.1% |
| WHEAT | 2019-04-29 | [India lifts wheat tariff as election, harvest shape policy - Grain Central](https://feedsoft.ai/events/59579-india-lifts-wheat-tariff-as-election-harvest-shape-policy-grain-central.md) | -4.1% | -0.2% |

## Sources

- grainews.ca: https://www.grainews.ca/daily/india-doubles-wheat-import-tax-imposes-50-per-cent-tax-on-peas/

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