Ahmedabad, India
Abbreviation
NMCE
Location
Ahmedabad, India
Region
Asia
Product Types
Precious Metals, Base Metals, Agricultural
National Multi-Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (NMCE), founded in 2002 and headquartered in Ahmedabad, was India's first demutualized national-level commodity futures exchange. NMCE offered futures contracts for precious metals, base metals, and agricultural commodities. Despite being a first-mover in India's commodity derivatives space, NMCE faced sustained challenges in liquidity and competition from MCX and NCDEX. SEBI cancelled NMCE's recognition as a national commodity exchange in 2018, effectively ending its operations.
Osaka Dojima Exchange has its roots in the Dojima Rice Market, founded in 1697 in Osaka, which is considered the world's first commodity futures market. In its modern form, Osaka Dojima Exchange (rebranded from Osaka Dojima Commodity Exchange) trades futures and spot contracts for raw sugar, arabica coffee, rubber (RSS3, TSR20), precious metals (gold, silver), and agricultural products. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) regulates the exchange. Dojima's historical significance as the birthplace of futures trading makes it one of the most important institutions in global commodity market history.
The Chittagong Tea Auction is one of the major tea auction centres in South Asia, located in Chittagong (Chattogram), Bangladesh. Operated by the Bangladesh Tea Board, the auction facilitates the weekly sale of CTC and orthodox teas grown in the Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts tea gardens. Bangladesh is a significant tea producer, and the Chittagong auction provides benchmark pricing for Bangladeshi teas sold to domestic packers and export buyers, competing with the Kolkata and Colombo tea auction systems.
The Mongolian Commodity Exchange (MCE), established in 2013 in Ulaanbaatar, is Mongolia's primary platform for trading raw agricultural and pastoral commodities. MCE lists 21 types of raw materials across six commodity groups: cashmere, wool, livestock, grain, meat, and leather. As Mongolia is one of the world's largest producers of cashmere, MCE plays a critical role in setting domestic benchmark prices for this high-value fibre. The exchange aims to bring transparency and standardisation to Mongolia's traditional commodity trading sector.
MEX Nepal is a commodity derivatives exchange based in Kathmandu, Nepal, providing a trading platform for agricultural commodities, bullion (gold, silver), base metals, and energy products. As part of Nepal's developing commodity derivatives sector, MEX Nepal offers local producers and traders access to price-risk management tools. The exchange operates within Nepal's regulatory and legal framework for commodity markets.