Could India please explain what specific preferences ministries can grant on a case by case basis?
Reply: Government Purchase and Price Preference Policy for MSMEs has no provision of specific preferences that ministries can grant on a case to case basis.
Canada 56:
Report by the Secretariat (WT/TPR/S/249): Part III. Trade Policies and Practices by Measure: (4) Measures Affecting Production and Trade; (v) Government Procurement:(c) Preferential policies at the central government level: paragraph 233, page 109:
The Secretariat's Report states that "Under the purchase preference system, 358 items have been reserved for exclusive procurement from MSEs (Table AIII.9) and 21 items for exclusive manufacturing in the micro and small sectors (section (4)(i)(b))."
