PHNOM PENH, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia exported 387,070 tonnes of milled rice in the first half of 2025, making a gross revenue of 283.4 million U.S. dollars, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) said in a news release on Thursday.
Fifty companies had exported the kingdom's milled rice to 63 countries and regions during the January-June period this year, the news release said, adding that China remained one of the major importers of the commodity.
"Seventy-five percent of the exported rice was fragrant rice, 19.68 percent was white rice, 2.49 percent was parboiled rice, 2.13 percent was organic rice, and 0.7 percent was other types of rice," CRF secretary general Lun Yeng said.
Ministry of Commerce's Secretary of State and Spokesperson Penn Sovicheat said the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement and the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement have laid a solid foundation for Cambodia's exports of agricultural items to China and other RCEP countries with tariff concessions.
"Under these free trade pacts, a number of Cambodian products, especially high-quality agricultural produce such as milled rice, yellow bananas, mangoes, longans, and peppercorn, as well as some wild aquatic products, have been exported to China with preferential tariffs," he told Xinhua. ■
