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Export and Trade Issues

World flour exports revised to
second largest total
in 2006-07 and 10,951,000 in 2005-06.
The record, including semolina, was
11,604,000 in 1995-96.
Commenting on the surge in
flour exports, the Council said,
"Flour trade has been boosted by
tight global milling wheat availabilities and grain export measures
taken by several suppliers, including Argentina, Russia and the
Ukraine." The measures to which
the Council refers were limits on exports of domestic supplies of milling wheat, which favored
wheat flour business.
Flour exports by origin
Among flour exporting
nations, the major gain over
in 1,000 tonnes
the prior estimate issued in
Per cent
March by the I.G.C. was
Origin
2007-08*
2006-07 change
by Argentina. That counArgentina
1,400
972
44%
Australia
275
337
-18%
try was estimated to have
Canada
275
343
-20%
shipped 1,400,000 tonnes of
European Union
1,350
1,314
3%
wheat flour in grain equivUnited States
500
418
20%
alent in 2007-08, up 150,000
China
850
645
32%
from the prior figure. The
Japan
325
393
-17%
past year 's exports by the
Kazakhstan
1,900
2,024
-6%
South American nation conPakistan
500
502
0%
trast with 972,000 in 2006-07
Russia
550
322
71%
and 642,000 in 2005-06.
Turkey
1,000
1,034
-3%
Ukraine
275
21
1,210%
Two importing nations,
United Arab Emirates
500
504
-1%
Brazil and Cuba, accounted
Others
1,015
1,147
-12%
mainly for the expansion in
Argentine shipments. BraSource: International Grains Council
*forecast
zil, with 2007-08 imports of
1 million tonnes in wheat
10,715,000 tonnes in wheat equiva- equivalent, ranked as the world's
lent. While lagging the all-time re- leading flour importer in the past
cord of 11,186,000 tonnes in 1996-97 crop season. These takings contrast
by 4%, the past season's total was with 663,000 in the prior season and
430,000 in 2005-06, and make Brazil
larger than in any other year.
The revised 2007-08 outgo was the world's largest flour market. The
up 7% from the exports of 9,976,000 Council pointed to the influence of
tonnes in wheat equivalent in export taxes imposed by the Argen2006-07 and showed a minuscule tine government, with the current
gain over 10,628,000 in 2005-06. In rate on flour at least 10 percentage
four of the past six years, world points less than for wheat.
Imports of wheat flour by Cuba
flour trade exceeded the 10-milliontonne mark, which represented a increased in 2007-08 to a three-year
sizable gain from the recent low of high of 270,000 tonnes, compared
8,494,000 tonnes in 2000-01. At the with 217,000 in the previous seacurrent level, global trade in flour son. As recently as 2001-02, Cuba
was up 83% from the low point of imported 440,000 tonnes of flour in
5,861,000 tonnes in the last two de- wheat equivalent.
In contrast with the export incades of the 20th century.
Not included in the I.G.C. esti- crease for Argentina, the estimate
mate of wheat flour trade are ship- of European Union flour exports
ments of durum semolina. The in 2007-08 was cut by the I.G.C., to
Council placed the durum semolina 1,350,000 tonnes in grain equivaexports in 2007-08 at 250,000 tonnes lent, or 150,000 less than forecast
in wheat equivalent, which would last March. At the revised total,
boost the crop year all-flour total to E.U. flour exports were nearly un10,965,000 tonnes, against 10,284,000 changed from the 2006-07 outgo of
LONDON - A small upward revision, of only 89,000 tonnes, brought
the International Grain Council's
estimate of global trade in wheat
flour in the 2007-08 crop year to the
largest total in 11 years. Indeed, the
revised I.G.C. estimate for the crop
year ended June 30 indicated that
the season's global trade in wheat
flour was the second largest of record.
Global trade in wheat flour for
2007-08 was placed by the I.G.C. at

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