Bhutan Government-Owned Corporations
The government owned several trading corporations. The
Food
Corporation of Bhutan in Phuntsholing was involved in
retailing,
marketing, storage, importing and exporting agricultural
products,
regulating agricultural commerce and processing, and
managing rural
finance through loans from the Bank of Bhutan and the
Royal
Insurance Corporation. The National Commission for Trade
and
Industry in Thimphu provided quality control for proposed
industrial projects, and the State Trading Corporation of
Bhutan in
Phuntsholing was the government's import and export
management
agency.
Data as of September 1991
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