TOKYO: Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture is seeking to buy a total of 146,000 tonnes of food quality wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that will close late on Wednesday.
A tender is normally announced on Tuesday and executed on Thursday. However, the schedule was changed this week due to a Japanese holiday on Thursday, an official with the ministry said.
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.
