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India restricts sugar exports at 10 million tonnes

Labourers lift a sack filled with sugar to load it onto a handcart at a wholesale market in Kolkata on Feb 1, 2018. (Reuters photo)

MUMBAI: India has imposed restrictions on sugar exports for the first time in six years by capping this season's exports at 10 million tonnes, a government order said, to prevent a surge in domestic prices after mills sold a record volume on the world market.

The government has also asked exporters to seek its permission for any overseas shipments between June 1 and Oct 31, the order said.

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