October 22, 2007
South Korea's January to September corn imports up 1 percent on-year
South Korea's imports of food-grade corn and feed corn rose 1 percent in the first nine months of 2007 from a year earlier, data from the Korea Trade Information Services showed on Friday (October 19).
Corn imports for feed production were up 2.1 percent to 5.1 million tonnes from a year earlier, the report said.
Imports of food-grade corn in the January-September period fell 2.6 percent to 1.4 million tonnes year on year, the data showed.
Corn imports for feed production (tonnes)
|
|
Jan-Sept '07 |
Jan-Sept '06 |
2006 |
|
United States |
2,756,513 |
3,955,476 |
5,234,711 |
|
|
2,115,307 |
1,058,570 |
1,430,741 |
|
|
232,346 |
66 |
1,430,741 |
|
|
10,948 |
- |
21,867 |
|
|
2,090 |
- |
- |
|
Paraguay |
- |
- |
23,799 |
|
|
- |
- |
14,409 |
|
|
- |
- |
4,991 |
|
|
- |
- |
2,994 |
|
TOTAL |
5,117,204 |
5,014,112 |
6,756,785 |
Corn imports for human consumption (tonnes)
|
|
Jan-Sept '07 |
Jan-Sept '06 |
2006 |
|
|
715,183 |
458,121 |
550,866 |
|
|
526,733 |
406,431 |
792,448 |
|
United States |
131,716 |
545,257 |
563,524 |
|
|
- |
349 |
349 |
|
TOTAL |
1,373,632 |
1,410,158 |
1,907,187 |
