Japan: Japan JFY2022 Minimum Access Rice Tender Results

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   JA2023-0037

In Japan Fiscal Year 2022, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) awarded 677,714 metric tons of rice through the Minimum Access import system. MAFF awarded 13,742 tons of rice in the simultaneous buy and sell tenders, and the remaining 663,972 tons through ordinary market access tenders.

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