This week EU approved export licences for 318,000 t of soft wheat. This makes total 16.9 million t from beginning of the 2012/13 (July-June) season.

Same period last year export was 11.5 million tonnes.

EU also granted import licences for 162,000 tonnes of corn. This season a total of 9.6 million tonnes corn was imported, compared to 4.6 million tonnes last year.