Japan has expressed its high regard for Australia’s new lines of noodle wheats, but has concerns about the levels of ‘dockage’ in Australian noodle wheat shipments…Read More
COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on the global textile and apparel trade which has flowed through to the cotton industry, but there are signs of the sector’s recovery, according to the USDA…Read More
Grain Central, November 12, 2020
Trade in agricultural goods has weathered the storm better than the global marketplaces for energy and industrial metals, according to recent AMIS commentary…Read More
Grain Central, November 9, 2020
Australian cotton could be the latest target in the ongoing trade tensions with China with reports that Chinese mills have been discouraged from buying Australian cotton and a tariff could be imposed…Read More
Grain Central, October 16, 2020
The proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) now sees 81 per cent of Australian agricultural exports destined for countries with which Australia has a preferential trade agreement…Read More
Grain Central, September 18, 2020
Up to 1.5Mt of Australian new-crop wheat sales appear to be on the books, with Vietnam followed by China seen as major buyers. Shippers are hopeful China takes the tonnage amid notifications of more stringent inspections. ..Read More
Liz Wells, September 16, 2020
In the 2019/20 marketing year, China accounted for just over 22pc of total world cotton production, exported only a small amount of cotton lint and was the world’s largest importer of cotton…Read More
Grain Central, September 14, 2020
A rule change on imports into India is likely to have little impact on the grain-oilseed trade, other than a little bit of extra paperwork…Read More
Andrew Whitelaw, Thomas Elder Markets, September 9, 2020
The value of Australian grain and sugar exports rose in 2019/20, but cotton exports dropped dramatically, according to Rural Bank’s Australian Agriculture Trade 2019/20 report…Read More
Grain Central, August 31, 2020
Australia’s barley industry is hoping the strengthening relationship between India and Australia will open the Indian market to Australian barley…Read More
Liz Wells, June 15, 2020
Wheat futures bounced off an eight-month low last week as concerns for the state of the EU winter crop added to deteriorating conditions in Russia, Ukraine and most of south eastern Europe…Read More
Grain Brokers Australia, May 26, 2020
Some deduce China’s recent trade impositions on Australia stem from Australia’s advocacy for an investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is a longer history of simmering tensions between the two nations…Read More
Richard Holden, UNSW, May 22, 2020