April 16, 2004

UK 2003-04 Total Wheat Exports At 1.599 Million MT

The U.K. exported 72,436 metric tons of wheat in January to bring the total cumulative exports from the start of the 2003-04 marketing year (July) to 1.599 million tons, U.K. trade data issued by the Home Grown Cereals Authority, or HGCA, showed Thursday.
 
All of the wheat exported in January went to other European Union member states.
 
France was the biggest buyer of U.K. wheat in January with 22,327 tons, with a cumulative total to end-January of 122,403 tons. Spain bought 15,834 tons to total 616,558 tons, while Ireland was the third biggest buyer at 10,416 tons.
 
HGCA figures also showed exports to non-E.U. destinations for February amounting to 945 tons to the Faroe Islands, a cumulative total of 63,816 tons.
 
Export figures for intra-E.U. wheat exports have not yet been supplied.
 
At the same time last year, U.K. wheat exports totaled 1.567 million tons.
 
At the end of the 2002-03 campaign, total U.K. wheat exports stood at nearly 3.3 million tons, with 2.6 million tons to E.U. destinations and 670,000 tons to third countries, the data showed.
 
For U.K. barley exports, customs data show that 68,723 tons were exported during January, with just 576 tons out of the total accounted by non-E.U. destinations.
 
This brings the total cumulative exported until January to 705,689 tons.
 
The HGCA also supplied figures for exports to non-E.U. destinations for February, totaling 3,633 tons, most of which went to Ukraine.
 
In 2002-03, the U.K. exported more than 1.1 million tons of barley.