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FEATURE: world flour trade expected to rebound

World flour trade 2013-14
Top exporters
1. Kazakhstan
2. Turkey
3. Argentina
4. E.U.-27
5. UAE

3,000,000
2,500,000
1,200,000
1,100,000
1,000,000

Top importers
1. Uzbekistan
2. Afghanistan
3. Iraq
4. Brazil

1,500,000
1,300,000
1,200,000
950,000

All figures forecast
Source: International Grains Council

Continuing to gain in importance as
a flour importer was Brazil, with its
imports in 2013-14 forecast at 950,000
tonnes, against 669,000 in the preceding crop year. The Council said Brazil’s
takings increased due to a poor quality

domestic crop and larger wheat supplies in Argentina.
On a continental basis, Far East Asia
once again was ranked as the world’s
largest flour importing region. Takings
were forecast at 3,170,000 tonnes of
wheat equivalent, against 2,910,000 in
the prior year. Besides Afghanistan, major importers in this region were Hong
Kong, taking 360,000, and Indonesia
importing 300,000.
Top exporTers
Kazakhstan regained its lead as a flour
exporter, forecast to ship 3 million tonnes
of wheat equivalent in 2013-14, against
2,190,000 in 2012-13 and 3,653,000 the
year before. In second place for the current season was Turkey, expected to ship
2,500,000 tonnes, little changed from
2,567,000 in the preceding year when it
ranked first as a global flour exporter.
Other major flour exporting nations

in 2013-14 were Argentina, at 1.2 million tonnes, the European Union at 1.1
million, and the United Arab Emirates,
1 million. Kazakhstan’s share of global
flour exports, 23.4%, was near the peak
for any exporter in recent years.
Three nations — the United States,
China and Russia — were each projected to export 400,000 tonnes of flour
in wheat equivalent in 2013-14. Only
Russia, up from 133,000 tonnes the prior year, showed a significant change in
its flour export pace.
The IGC does not include shipments of
durum semolina in its global flour exports.
Durum semolina was expected to account
for shipments of 350,000 tonnes of wheat
equivalent in 2013-14, unchanged from
the preceding year and compared with
360,000 tonnes in 2011-12.
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