date:Aug 29, 2012
Primarily responsible for the expected decrease in the new crop year trade was a drop in imports by Uzbekistan, which in turn was largely due to reduced export availabilities from Kazakhstan, its neighboring flour supplier.
According to the I.G.C., global exports of wheat flour in 2011-12 reached 13,550,000 tonnes in wheat equivalent (nearly 225 million cwts of flour). That total was up 850,000 tonnes from the prior I.G.C. estimate for the crop season just ended. At the latest crop year estimate