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Japan offers to buy 98,705 tonnes food wheat via tender

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture sought to buy 98,705 tonnes of food-quality wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that will close late 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                                     15,220        *
 U.S.          Hard Red Winter(Semi Hard)                        19,805        *
 Canada        Western Red Spring(protein minimum 13.5 pct)      34,910        *
 Australia     Standard White(west Australia)                    28,770        *

Shipments: * Loading between Sept 1 and Sept 30
Source: Ministry of Agriculture

Source: Reuters (Reporting by Fumika Inoue)

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