The State Trading Corporation of India Limited, together with its subsidiary, SCTL Limited, operates as an international trading house in India. It exports various agricultural commodities, including wheat, cashew, coffee, rice, tea, tobacco and rubber, sugar, extractions, opium, HPS groundnut, spices, castor oil and seeds, and jute goods; and manufactured products, such as chemicals, drugs and medical disposables, engineering and construction materials, consumer products, textiles and garments, leatherware, processed foods, iron ore, and steel raw materials. The company also imports edible oils, sugar, wheat, fatty acids, and pulses; and hydrocarbons, gold and silver, minerals/metals, petro-chemicals, fertilizers, scientific instruments, hospital/ police equipments, FMCG goods, and IT products. The State Trading Corporation of India Limited was founded in 1956 and is based in New Delhi, India.