IGC forecasts flour trade increase: Council predicts 9% gain over 2006-07 due to tightness in the world wheat market

摘要

Buoyed by tightness in the world wheat market and export controls imposed by a number of countries that made flour relatively more available and even less expensive than the grain, world trade in wheat flour in 2007-08 was forecast to gain 9% over theprior season. This outlook, presented by the International Grains Council (IGC) in its March Grain Market Report, represented a sharp reversal from previous assessments pointing to world flour exports holding barely steady with the reduced outgo in 2006-07. Instead, the latest forecast, 10,620,000 tonnes in wheat equivalent, would mean shipments on a par with 2005-06, which were the largest since the record of 11,186,000 tonnes in 1996-97.