FAPRI Briefing Book 1998 Tables

Wheat Trade
	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07

Net Exporters	(Million Metric Tons)
Argentina	10.47	8.70	8.85	9.15	9.42	9.68	9.91	10.11	10.30	10.49	10.67
Australia	18.69	12.97	13.02	12.61	12.27	12.09	12.08	12.19	12.38	12.65	12.99
Canada	19.23	18.30	17.69	18.17	19.30	19.45	19.65	19.79	19.91	20.02	20.18
Eastern Europe	-3.03	1.50	1.32	1.38	1.56	1.67	1.77	1.78	1.76	1.72	1.74
European Union	14.61	13.62	12.38	13.43	14.15	16.27	17.70	18.86	20.24	21.87	23.27
Ukraine	0.30	0.95	1.24	1.49	1.24	1.13	1.03	0.91	1.04	0.97	0.84
United States	24.74	26.81	25.35	27.55	29.13	29.97	30.51	31.04	31.21	31.46	31.56

Total Net Exports	85.01	82.84	80.12	84.53	87.93	91.13	93.51	95.51	97.63	99.86	101.83

Net Importers
Japan	5.86	5.80	5.87	5.93	5.96	5.98	6.00	6.03	6.05	6.08	6.10
Russia	2.51	0.05	-0.27	-0.75	-0.85	-0.87	-0.87	-0.83	-0.78	-0.69	-0.57
Other Former Soviet Union	1.75	1.74	1.47	1.53	1.55	1.58	1.59	1.62	1.66	1.72	1.81
Other Western Europe	0.38	0.46	0.53	0.54	0.55	0.56	0.62	0.65	0.66	0.66	0.66
Developing	68.62	74.88	71.78	76.06	79.40	82.54	84.81	86.73	88.76	90.90	92.75
China	2.60	1.80	2.23	4.51	5.50	6.49	6.87	6.91	6.86	6.70	6.37
High-Income East Asia	5.04	5.46	5.03	5.10	5.37	5.66	5.97	6.29	6.64	6.99	7.36
India	-0.45	1.50	0.58	1.28	2.03	2.30	2.25	2.11	2.08	2.19	2.15
Other Asia	13.91	15.51	14.68	15.29	15.72	16.22	16.76	17.29	17.83	18.37	18.88
Brazil	5.18	5.70	5.62	5.62	5.65	5.72	5.80	5.88	5.97	6.05	6.14
Mexico	1.94	1.50	1.51	1.61	1.69	1.76	1.85	1.95	2.06	2.16	2.27
Other Latin America	7.21	7.89	7.93	8.10	8.26	8.43	8.62	8.82	9.03	9.27	9.50
Algeria	3.11	4.30	4.18	4.24	4.31	4.41	4.53	4.66	4.80	4.94	5.09
Egypt	7.00	7.20	7.26	7.28	7.33	7.41	7.52	7.65	7.80	7.97	8.16
Morocco	1.46	2.40	1.60	1.72	1.89	2.08	2.17	2.28	2.40	2.53	2.67
Tunisia	0.87	1.40	1.09	1.13	1.18	1.24	1.30	1.36	1.43	1.51	1.59
Other Africa/Middle East	20.77	20.23	20.06	20.19	20.47	20.81	21.19	21.52	21.87	22.21	22.56
Rest of World	0.41	0.43	0.46	0.47	0.47	0.48	0.48	0.48	0.49	0.49	0.49
Residual	5.48	-0.51	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

Total Net Imports	85.01	82.84	80.12	84.53	87.93	91.13	93.51	95.51	97.63	99.86	101.83

Wheat Prices	(U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton)
U.S. FOB Gulf	184.33	154.94	149.52	151.22	156.56	158.64	160.18	162.10	163.89	166.31	170.60
Canadian Thunder Bay	204.17	170.70	164.46	166.29	172.22	174.47	176.14	178.27	180.26	182.97	187.81
Australian Wheat Board	182.48	153.91	148.76	150.38	155.44	157.48	158.98	160.86	162.61	164.98	169.16
CIF Rotterdam	216.50	182.21	175.89	177.88	184.10	186.54	188.33	190.57	192.66	195.48	200.48

Rice Trade
	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07

Net Exporters	(Million Metric Tons)
China	0.40	0.75	0.95	0.54	0.24	0.15	0.11	0.09	0.03	0.10	0.14
India	1.75	1.75	1.59	1.80	1.91	2.07	2.21	2.32	2.40	2.45	2.44
Myanmar (Burma)	0.02	0.10	0.06	0.13	0.19	0.25	0.30	0.36	0.42	0.51	0.55
Pakistan	1.75	1.78	1.75	1.86	1.91	1.99	2.03	2.07	2.11	2.15	2.20
Thailand	4.90	5.25	5.49	5.56	5.70	5.79	5.93	6.04	6.15	6.27	6.44
United States	2.17	2.22	2.27	2.21	2.12	2.03	1.93	1.84	1.74	1.63	1.53
Vietnam	3.25	3.50	3.44	3.44	3.45	3.45	3.48	3.57	3.64	3.69	3.73

Total Net Exports	14.25	15.34	15.55	15.55	15.52	15.73	15.99	16.28	16.49	16.80	17.03

Net Importers
European Union	0.30	0.33	0.56	0.57	0.58	0.58	0.58	0.58	0.59	0.59	0.60
Indonesia	0.45	2.25	1.85	1.75	1.76	1.80	1.89	1.97	2.06	2.02	1.96
Japan	0.60	0.60	0.36	0.48	0.51	0.56	0.66	0.66	0.66	0.66	0.63
Saudi Arabia	0.71	0.73	0.78	0.79	0.82	0.84	0.85	0.87	0.89	0.91	0.93
Rest of World	11.39	11.54	12.00	11.96	11.87	11.96	12.01	12.20	12.29	12.62	12.91
Residual	0.80	-0.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

Total Net Imports	14.25	15.34	15.55	15.55	15.52	15.73	15.99	16.28	16.49	16.80	17.03

Rice Prices	(U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton)
FOB Bangkok 5% Paraboiled	338.00	287.99	300.24	302.09	304.61	307.09	308.41	310.76	312.59	316.27	319.65
FOB U.S. Houston	468.75	437.89	417.94	417.25	418.24	419.14	419.71	420.43	420.41	421.30	422.58

Coarse Grain Trade
	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07

Net Exporters	(Million Metric Tons)
United States	49.01	48.48	55.75	59.50	61.18	63.43	65.44	68.19	70.98	73.83	77.10
Argentina	11.25	10.68	9.88	10.21	10.27	10.33	10.46	10.60	10.75	10.91	11.11
Australia	4.36	3.16	4.07	3.92	3.84	3.75	3.67	3.62	3.57	3.54	3.51
Canada	1.73	1.39	1.01	0.72	0.68	0.67	0.67	0.69	0.70	0.72	0.72
Eastern Europe	0.28	2.73	1.80	1.72	1.66	1.57	1.67	1.68	1.62	1.48	1.15
European Union	8.57	8.31	8.92	9.60	10.02	9.77	10.13	10.37	10.39	10.81	11.02
South Africa	1.30	0.65	0.79	0.76	0.93	1.04	1.14	1.25	1.35	1.47	1.58
Ukraine	0.10	0.40	0.65	0.82	1.13	0.96	0.86	0.90	0.82	0.70	0.42

Total Net Exports	78.41	78.19	83.09	87.54	89.88	91.55	94.08	97.16	99.92	102.97	106.01

Net Importers
Israel	1.43	1.00	1.20	1.19	1.19	1.19	1.20	1.20	1.20	1.21	1.21
Japan	20.19	20.44	20.53	20.38	20.15	19.96	19.73	19.44	19.15	18.87	18.58
Russia	0.35	-0.65	-0.22	-0.30	-0.16	-0.03	-0.05	0.14	0.28	0.47	0.61
Other FSU	0.66	0.62	0.57	0.46	0.53	0.50	0.82	0.99	1.18	1.39	1.62
Developing	53.52	53.37	59.58	64.24	66.94	69.94	72.69	76.02	79.45	82.85	86.37
China	-1.82	-1.75	4.38	6.50	7.58	8.33	8.99	10.08	11.10	11.82	12.37
Indonesia	0.94	0.75	0.82	0.95	1.13	1.33	1.55	1.80	2.06	2.34	2.65
Thailand	0.25	0.43	0.32	0.47	0.59	0.72	0.87	1.01	1.15	1.29	1.45
Malaysia	2.40	2.40	2.47	2.53	2.63	2.74	2.87	3.00	3.14	3.30	3.47
Pakistan	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
South Korea	8.60	7.60	7.46	7.75	7.88	8.01	8.14	8.26	8.39	8.52	8.67
Taiwan	5.94	5.15	5.20	5.64	5.78	5.87	5.89	5.97	6.05	6.12	6.19
Vietnam	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.07	0.09	0.11	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.13
India	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0.09	0.16	0.24	0.27	0.29	0.30	0.32	0.30
Philippines	0.45	0.50	0.48	0.62	0.65	0.72	0.79	0.87	0.97	1.10	1.23
Other Asia	0.83	0.80	0.70	0.71	0.73	0.75	0.77	0.80	0.84	0.88	0.92
Brazil	0.34	1.44	1.63	1.65	1.55	1.43	1.38	1.43	1.56	1.75	2.02
Mexico	6.03	6.06	6.59	6.79	6.82	7.20	7.53	7.93	8.40	9.02	9.77
Other Latin America	7.12	7.52	7.81	8.11	8.43	8.74	9.03	9.33	9.63	9.93	10.25
Algeria	0.98	1.30	1.50	1.55	1.59	1.64	1.69	1.73	1.78	1.83	1.87
Egypt	3.13	3.25	3.27	3.37	3.46	3.58	3.71	3.86	4.02	4.19	4.39
Saudi Arabia	6.80	7.10	7.20	7.47	7.70	7.91	8.09	8.26	8.41	8.55	8.68
Other Middle East	4.89	4.60	4.79	4.87	4.92	5.00	5.09	5.13	5.16	5.21	5.22
Other Africa	3.79	3.54	3.68	3.76	3.80	4.09	4.29	4.45	4.61	4.75	4.94
Other Importers	1.06	0.95	1.28	1.38	1.48	1.55	1.63	1.71	1.77	1.83	1.86
Residual	2.27	2.77	-1.50	-1.50	-1.50	-1.50	-1.50	-1.50	-1.50	-1.50	-1.50

Total Net Imports	78.41	78.19	83.09	87.54	89.88	91.55	94.08	97.16	99.92	102.97	106.01

Corn Trade
	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07

Net Exporters	(Million Metric Tons)
Argentina	10.50	10.00	9.24	9.50	9.56	9.64	9.76	9.89	10.02	10.15	10.31
Eastern Europe	1.04	2.51	2.50	2.48	2.45	2.43	2.52	2.55	2.48	2.35	1.95
South Africa	1.30	0.65	0.79	0.76	0.93	1.04	1.14	1.25	1.35	1.47	1.58
Ukraine	0.00	0.20	0.36	0.44	0.62	0.57	0.52	0.47	0.44	0.37	0.28
United States	45.14	43.62	51.14	54.89	56.58	58.55	60.39	62.92	65.56	68.06	71.03

Total Net Exports	61.80	60.72	64.03	68.06	70.13	72.23	74.33	77.09	79.85	82.40	85.16

Net Importers
Canada	0.60	0.70	0.73	0.82	0.88	0.92	0.96	0.99	1.02	1.06	1.11
European Union	0.80	0.50	0.29	0.21	0.16	0.18	0.11	0.18	0.21	0.16	0.23
Israel	0.65	0.30	0.55	0.56	0.56	0.57	0.58	0.58	0.59	0.59	0.59
Japan	15.90	15.90	16.03	15.95	15.81	15.69	15.53	15.33	15.13	14.94	14.75
Russia	0.20	0.10	0.14	0.17	0.19	0.18	0.14	0.29	0.41	0.53	0.64
Other Former Soviet Union	0.19	0.17	0.07	0.12	0.13	0.01	0.22	0.28	0.35	0.43	0.52
Developing	41.43	41.43	44.55	48.50	50.64	52.91	54.99	57.64	60.35	62.91	65.54
Algeria	0.91	1.00	1.13	1.14	1.17	1.20	1.22	1.25	1.28	1.31	1.34
Egypt	3.08	3.20	3.22	3.32	3.41	3.53	3.66	3.81	3.97	4.14	4.34
Other Africa	3.11	2.74	2.81	2.84	2.85	3.10	3.26	3.38	3.50	3.60	3.75
Other Middle East	5.25	5.05	5.17	5.24	5.28	5.35	5.41	5.47	5.54	5.60	5.64
Brazil	0.15	1.23	1.41	1.42	1.31	1.18	1.12	1.16	1.27	1.44	1.70
Mexico	3.09	3.70	3.94	3.99	3.98	4.10	4.26	4.41	4.59	4.81	5.09
Other Latin America	6.83	7.25	7.53	7.82	8.14	8.44	8.74	9.03	9.33	9.63	9.95
China	-3.82	-3.75	2.23	4.30	5.30	5.97	6.53	7.50	8.37	8.90	9.26
Indonesia	0.94	0.75	0.82	0.95	1.13	1.33	1.55	1.80	2.06	2.34	2.65
Malaysia	2.40	2.40	2.47	2.53	2.63	2.74	2.87	3.00	3.14	3.30	3.47
South Korea	8.50	7.50	7.36	7.65	7.78	7.91	8.04	8.16	8.29	8.42	8.57
Taiwan	5.74	5.00	5.07	5.51	5.64	5.73	5.74	5.80	5.87	5.93	5.99
Thailand	0.25	0.43	0.32	0.47	0.59	0.72	0.87	1.01	1.15	1.29	1.45
Philippines	0.45	0.50	0.48	0.62	0.65	0.72	0.79	0.87	0.97	1.10	1.23
India	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.09	0.16	0.24	0.27	0.29	0.30	0.32	0.30
Pakistan	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Vietnam	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.07	0.09	0.11	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.13
Other Asia	0.73	0.70	0.60	0.61	0.63	0.65	0.67	0.70	0.74	0.78	0.82
Rest of World	0.16	0.13	0.18	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.18	0.17	0.16	0.15	0.15
Residual	1.87	1.50	1.50	1.50	1.50	1.50	1.50	1.50	1.50	1.50	1.50

Total Net Imports	61.80	60.72	64.03	68.06	70.13	72.23	74.33	77.09	79.85	82.40	85.16

Coarse Grain Prices	(U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton)
Corn (FOB Gulf)	120.86	113.20	108.21	107.24	109.44	111.16	112.43	114.74	116.72	119.27	121.81
Sorghum (FOB Gulf)	110.89	107.11	104.64	104.09	106.21	108.44	109.92	112.30	114.53	117.12	120.37
Barley (Portland)	151.48	135.12	128.12	128.29	131.17	132.35	133.08	134.54	136.00	137.72	140.72

Barley Trade
	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07

Net Exporters	(Million Metric Tons)
Argentina	0.13	0.14	0.15	0.15	0.16	0.16	0.15	0.15	0.15	0.15	0.15
Australia	4.00	2.70	3.55	3.41	3.32	3.23	3.16	3.10	3.05	3.00	2.96
Canada	3.33	3.09	2.75	2.54	2.56	2.59	2.63	2.68	2.73	2.77	2.83
European Union	9.04	8.38	8.81	9.46	9.88	9.67	9.95	10.29	10.32	10.67	10.78
Russia	-0.15	0.75	0.35	0.46	0.34	0.21	0.19	0.16	0.13	0.06	0.03
Ukraine	0.10	0.20	0.29	0.38	0.51	0.39	0.34	0.42	0.38	0.33	0.14
United States	-0.13	1.21	0.69	0.66	0.64	0.66	0.68	0.71	0.73	0.76	0.74

Total Net Exports	16.19	16.46	16.58	17.05	17.41	16.90	17.11	17.52	17.49	17.74	17.64

Net Importers
Eastern Europe	0.77	-0.22	0.69	0.76	0.78	0.85	0.85	0.87	0.86	0.87	0.81
Israel	0.33	0.30	0.23	0.21	0.20	0.20	0.21	0.21	0.22	0.22	0.22
Japan	1.60	1.75	1.75	1.74	1.71	1.70	1.68	1.66	1.63	1.61	1.59
Other Former Soviet Union	0.48	0.46	0.50	0.34	0.40	0.49	0.60	0.71	0.83	0.96	1.10
Developing	10.07	10.63	11.10	11.52	11.91	12.29	12.68	13.04	13.40	13.80	14.18
Algeria	0.07	0.30	0.37	0.40	0.42	0.44	0.46	0.48	0.50	0.52	0.54
Other Africa	0.68	0.80	0.87	0.92	0.95	0.99	1.03	1.07	1.11	1.15	1.18
Saudi Arabia	5.75	6.00	6.05	6.27	6.45	6.61	6.74	6.86	6.96	7.05	7.13
Other Middle East	0.70	0.65	0.77	0.84	0.89	0.96	1.02	1.05	1.08	1.11	1.13
Brazil	0.18	0.20	0.21	0.22	0.23	0.24	0.25	0.26	0.27	0.29	0.30
Mexico	0.13	0.15	0.15	0.16	0.16	0.17	0.17	0.17	0.18	0.18	0.19
Other Latin America	0.28	0.28	0.28	0.28	0.29	0.29	0.29	0.30	0.30	0.30	0.30
China	1.99	2.00	2.16	2.20	2.28	2.36	2.46	2.58	2.73	2.91	3.11
Pakistan	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Taiwan	0.20	0.15	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.14	0.15	0.16	0.18	0.19	0.20
Other Asia	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10	0.10
Rest of World	0.34	0.31	0.39	0.44	0.50	0.53	0.56	0.58	0.59	0.58	0.56
Residual	2.15	3.65	1.91	2.13	1.85	0.63	0.30	0.17	-0.36	-0.72	-1.28

Total Net Imports	16.19	16.46	16.58	17.05	17.41	16.90	17.11	17.52	17.49	17.74	17.64

Coarse Grain Prices	(U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton)
Corn (FOB Gulf)	120.86	113.20	108.21	107.24	109.44	111.16	112.43	114.74	116.72	119.27	121.81
Sorghum (FOB Gulf)	110.89	107.11	104.64	104.09	106.21	108.44	109.92	112.30	114.53	117.12	120.37
Barley (Portland)	151.48	135.12	128.12	128.29	131.17	132.35	133.08	134.54	136.00	137.72	140.72

Sorghum Trade
	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07

Net Exporters	(Million Metric Tons)
Argentina	0.79	0.60	0.55	0.62	0.61	0.58	0.59	0.61	0.63	0.65	0.70
Australia	0.15	0.25	0.32	0.31	0.31	0.31	0.31	0.31	0.32	0.33	0.35
United States	5.21	5.08	5.36	5.44	5.46	5.73	5.90	6.11	6.37	6.73	7.13

Total Net Exports	6.15	5.93	6.22	6.36	6.39	6.62	6.80	7.03	7.32	7.72	8.18

Net Importers
Israel	0.46	0.40	0.42	0.42	0.42	0.42	0.41	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40
Japan	2.60	2.70	2.66	2.61	2.54	2.49	2.44	2.37	2.29	2.23	2.15
Developing	2.78	2.20	2.43	2.58	2.63	2.89	3.06	3.31	3.60	3.99	4.47
Mexico	2.80	2.20	2.49	2.63	2.67	2.93	3.10	3.34	3.63	4.02	4.49
South Africa	0.00	0.00	-0.06	-0.05	-0.04	-0.04	-0.04	-0.03	-0.03	-0.02	-0.02
Nigeria	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
India	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Pakistan	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

Rest of World	0.56	0.52	0.71	0.75	0.79	0.83	0.89	0.95	1.02	1.09	1.15
Residual	-0.24	0.11	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

Total Net Imports	6.15	5.93	6.22	6.36	6.39	6.62	6.80	7.03	7.32	7.72	8.18

Coarse Grain Prices	(U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton)
Corn (FOB Gulf)	120.86	113.20	108.21	107.24	109.44	111.16	112.43	114.74	116.72	119.27	121.81
Sorghum (FOB Gulf)	110.89	107.11	104.64	104.09	106.21	108.44	109.92	112.30	114.53	117.12	120.37
Barley (Portland)	151.48	135.12	128.12	128.29	131.17	132.35	133.08	134.54	136.00	137.72	140.72