Japan offers to buy 121,485 tons food wheat via tender

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) is seeking to buy a total of 121,485 metric tons 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 the majority of the grain for milling via tenders typically issued three times a month.

Details are as follows (in metric tons):

Shipments: *Loading between June 21 and June 30

**Loading between July 1 and July 31

Source: MAFF

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