At least 10 ships were scheduled to arrive in Ho Chi Minh City Port from Aug. 4-19 to be loaded with 156,350 mt of rice, according to the Oceanic Agency and Shipping Service (see table).

Brazil imported a total of 35,560 mt in July, down by 33% month-on-month and 59% year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services. Milled and semi-milled rice accounted...

The United States Department of Agriculture has lowered its forecast for 2020-21 global milled rice production by 2.1 million mt to 500 million mt in its latest WASDE report. This is a result of...

Conab has maintained its forecast for Brazil’s paddy production in the 2019-20 marketing year (April 2020-March 2021) at 11.2 million mt, up by 6.6% year-on-year. Total planted area is estimated at...

Costa Rica’s Indarroz awarded ADM the full 35,000 mt of US paddy in its Aug. 6 tender, according to participants. The volume will be shipped in two lots in October-November, with the entire volume...

The FAO’s All Rice Price Index decreased by 4.1 points (-3.6%) in July to 110.3 points, according to its August report. Although this is the second consecutive monthly decline and a four-month low,...

Taiwan's Bank Corporation (TBC) will hold a tender for 6,000 mt of US medium and short grain white rice on Sept. 4.
The TBC previously awarded 18,500 mt of US brown rice import licences in its July...

Taiwan’s Bank Corporation (TBC) will hold a global origin tender for 3,880 mt of brown rice on Aug. 26. The tender follows on from the TBC not awarding any volumes in its July 30 tender for 4,000...