The State Trading Corporation of India Limited is an international trading company. The Company is engaged in trading bulk agro products, such as rice, wheat, castor oils, sugar, and edible oils. Its segments include Export, Import, and Domestic. It has also diversified into bullion, hydrocarbons, metals, minerals, ores, fertilizers, and petro-chemicals trading. It manages canalized exports and imports of items varying from chemicals and drugs to bulk commodities such as edible oils, cement, sugar, newsprint, wheat, and urea. The Company also provides marketing and financial assistance to exporters by arranging the import of machinery and raw materials for export production, setting up design centers, providing testing laboratories, taking products of small manufacturers to overseas markets by organizing their consortia, participating in exhibitions and trade fairs. Its subsidiary is STCL Limited.