PARIS – December 17, 2021

According to Refinitiv, French soft wheat shipments outside the EU last month reached 802,700 tonnes.
Algeria was the largest non-EU destination, with 256,700 tonnes, followed by China with 237,700 tonnes.
China in October had loaded 514,800 tonnes of soft wheat.
French barley exports outside the EU reached 354,400 tonnes, up from the 269,300 tonnes recorded in October, but still short of the 909,900 shipped in August.
China was the number one destination with the November shipments, that included 255,800 tonnes of feed barley and 62,000 tonnes of maltingbarley. 
Another 28,000 tonnes of malting barley were shipped to Colombia while 8,500 went to Brazil.
Grain shipments to all destinations from French ports last month – including barley, malting barley, maize, waxy maize, malt and durum wheat – totalled 1.36 million tonnes.
The loading data is subject to revision and can differ from monthly customs figures depending on when ships are counted as leaving France.