農水省―輸入小麦政府売り渡し価格公示 9月１１日
MAFF announces its wheat selling price for next 6 months
The ministry announces as under that the government’s selling prices for wheat downs by 8.7%.
MAFF says that the market prices in the past 6 months have moved downwards because of sufficient supply in worldover.
http://www.maff.go.jp/j/press/seisaku_tokatu/boeki/190910.html
Act on stabilization of Supply and Demand and Prices of Staple Food
Trading houses commissioned by MAFF import wheat from source countries and sold to MAFF. Trading houses have to sell the wheat to MAFF and this case trading houses need not pay duty.
MAFF procures the wheat from trading houses and sold them to food manufacturers with the set prices as above. This is the price stabilizing system in this country.
