Japan: Japan buys 2.5 thousand tonnes of French malting barley via tender

Japan bought 16,254 metric tons of food wheat and 2,500 tons of malting barley through a tender system introduced to loosen government grain-import controls, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced on November, 30.

All of the barley was from France, it is reported.

The tender was held under the so-called simultaneous buy-and-sell system, in which food makers and trading companies jointly bid for grains of any origin and quality.

01 December, 2010