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Japan offers to buy 97,175 tonnes of food wheat via tender

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture sought to buy 97,175 tonnes of food-quality wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that will close late 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 majority of the grain for milling via tenders typically issued thrice a month.

Details are as follows (in tonnes):

 COUNTRY     TYPE                                             QUANTITY        
 U.S.        Western White                                    10,685       *
 U.S.        Hard Red Winter (Semi Hard)                      24,365       *
 Canada      Western Red Spring(protein minimum 13.5 pct)     34,995       *
 Australia   Standard White (West Australia)                  27,130       *

Shipments: * Loading between June 1 and June 30, 2019
Source: Ministry of Agriculture

Source: Reuters (Reporting by Fumika Inoue)

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