COMMODITY SUBSCRIPTION · SCOPE & METHOD · NOT AN OFFER
RiceSubscription Report
HS 100620, 100630, 100640 · grains · container
NINE PAGES · REGISTRATION OPEN · NO FEE IS BEING COLLECTED YET
PRICE BASIS · CUSTOMS RECORD · COUNTERPARTY REGISTER — READ FROM FREE, CITED SOURCES
01The record on this commodity
02What it is, and what H-α does with it
03The nine pages, what each does, and a line from each
COMMODITY SUBSCRIPTION REPORT · PREPARED BY H-α TRADE INTELLIGENCE
2026-11-07
H-α · TRADE INTELLIGENCE
Rice Subscription Report
THE RECORD
I.The record on this commodity
| WHAT IS HELD | COUNT | BASIS |
|---|
| Buyers | 39 | named companies |
| Sellers | 341 | named companies |
| Countries | 68 | in the record |
| Ports | 17 | worked by the book |
| Customs lanes | 178 | cut from declarations |
| Declarations | 36,467 | latest year, on those lanes |
| Prices | 3 | legs on the desk |
| Pursuit lanes | 168 | lanes on the board |
| Freight routes | 10 | container · drawn |
| Port hubs | — | no inland leg is on file for this commodity yet |
| Specifications | — | the registry carries no quality spec or grade table for this commodity |
| Named sources | 1 | all free to consult |
THE COMMODITY
II.What Rice is, and what H-α does with it
Rice is the most policy-driven of the grain trades. Indica long-grain, parboiled, basmati and other aromatics, japonica and broken rice are separate markets with separate buyers, and the broken percentage — 5 per cent, 25 per cent — is the trade's basic grade language. India, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, the United States and Myanmar carry export supply; the Philippines, West Africa, Indonesia, the Gulf and China carry demand. Export bans, minimum export prices and duty changes move this market faster than any crop fundamental.
What the subscription does with it
The subscription reads the declared record on the milled, parboiled, aromatic and broken headings separately rather than as one rice line, and keeps millers, exporters, state agencies and importers in one book. The price basis is the series the registry names, carried with its print date, and a policy caveat recorded in the registry is reproduced verbatim rather than summarised.
The registry’s note on the headings this subscription reads:
HS6 CANNOT distinguish basmati from non-basmati, nor parboiled from raw. India's basmati split — the most policy-relevant distinction in rice — needs India's 8-digit ITC(HS) lines. 1006.40 (broken) is kept separate: it is a different market (West Africa, feed) from milled.
100620 husked (brown) rice; 100630 semi-milled or wholly milled rice; 100640 broken rice
The registry’s caveat on the price anchor:
The only source in Wave 3 with a clean, explicit, commercial-friendly licence. TREA's site has a BROKEN TLS CERTIFICATE and could not be verified; VFA publishes free prices but ATTRIBUTES THEM TO 'ORYZA', i.e. it republishes a commercial assessment; APEDA publishes volumes not prices; FAO's Rice Price Update is an embedded Power BI dashboard with no data endpoint. HS6 CANNOT separate basmati from non-basmati — India's most policy-relevant split needs ITC(HS) 8-digit.
THE NINE PAGES
III.The nine pages, what each does, and a line from each
OPEN01Market Today
482.00 USD/MT · Thailand, 5% broken, white rice (WR), milled, indicative price based on weekly surveys of export transactions, government standard, f.o.b. Bangkok · World Bank Pink Sheet · print 2026-09
OPEN02Intel
Rice, Thai 25% broken (World Bank Pink Sheet) · 461.00 · World Bank Pink Sheet 'Rice, Thai 25%' — the sheet's Description tab defines only the 5% grade; no basis is claimed for this one beyond the grade in its name · World Bank Pink Sheet · print 2026-09
OPEN03Customs
PY → BR · 23,287 declarations · unit value median 280.00 · last seen 2026-09-28
OPEN04Register
one register record · buyer · US · baltimore · unset
OPEN05Trade Audit
Grade (SHB/Santos) baseline SHB · 3 specs checked: grade, screen size, defects per 300g
specimen · Coffee
OPEN06Pursuit
PY → TR · still needs recent trade, named parties
OPEN07Deal Maker
insurance % of CIF 0.05 · discharge USD/MT 1
OPEN08Freight
nhava-sheva → baltimore · container · High volume · 234 sellers · 17 buyers
OPEN09Logistics
no line can be drawn for this page on any commodity yet