Japan buys 119,345 tons food wheat via tender
Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) bought a total of 119,345 metric tons of food-quality wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that closed on Thursday.
Japan, the world’s sixth-biggest wheat importer, keeps a tight grip on imports of the country’s second most important staple after rice and buys the majority of the grain for milling via tenders typically issued three times a month.
Details are as follows (in metric tons):
COUNTRY | TYPE | QUANTITY | |
U.S. | Western White | 12,750 | * |
U.S. | Hard Red Winter(Semi Hard) | 22,590 | * |
U.S. | Western White | 18,745 | * |
U.S. | Hard Red Winter(Semi Hard) | 11,290 | * |
Canada | Western Red Spring(protein minimum 13.5 pct) | 24,790 | * |
Australia | Standard White(west Australia) | 29,180 | ** |
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