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Wheat Trades Near 6.5 Year High as Russian Export Tax Boosts Uncertainty

RUSSIA


  • Wheat holds near 6-1/2 year peak as focus stays on Russian export tax (EUR 50bn as of Friday)
  • expected to last from March 1 to June 30
  • 10 Dec marks the start of export tax talks (circled on graph)
  • Russia's higher tax on wheat, and it remaining in place beyond June, continues to reverberate through wheat markets - Commonwealth Bank
  • Proposed taxes, aimed at cooling food inflation, have pushed up bothRussian export prices and prices of other origins like U.S. wheat seen incontention to take demand from Russia
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com

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