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Feed-grade wheat import restrictions are driving down wheat imports, with MY 2016/17 estimated lower at nine MMT and 2017/18 at 9.45 MMT.

In MY 2014/15, a larger harvest area was realized for Chilean wheat over the previous marketing year (MY).

This report contains marketing year (MY) 2017/18 forecast for Croatia’s production in wheat, corn and barley and updated numbers for MY 2016/17.

Serbia’s marketing year (MY) 2016/17 wheat crop was the largest in over 20 years at an estimated three million metric tons (MMT), compared to 2.6 million last year.

Saudi MY 2017/18 wheat imports are projected at 3.7 million MT, an increase of about six percent compared to this marketing year.

On March 16, FAS Kuala Lumpur paid a visit to Port Klang to witness discharge of U.S. corn from a Panamax cargo of 68,100 tons.

For 2016/17 total overall imports of corn into Malaysia are forecast to drop to 3.8 million tons.Even so, U.S. exports of corn are likely to increase to 150,000 tons....

Beginning February 4, 2017, Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety began enforcing biotech labeling requirements that were finalized on February 3, 2016.

In 2016, U.S. corn dominated the Colombian market supplying 99.6% of imports due to trade preferences in the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA).

FAS/Nairobi forecasts an increase in Kenya’s corn, wheat and rice production in the marketing year (MY) 2017/2018 mainly due to a recovery from the effects of the severe drought conditions....

Given the competitiveness of U.S. corn, wheat and rice prices, Japanese demand for these grains has remained strong.

South Africa should return to being a net exporter of corn in the 2017/18 MY and 2016/17 MY on higher production.