Indonesia in talks over rice imports from Vietnam

HANOI: Indonesia has been in talks to import between 400,000 and 600,000 tonnes of rice from Vietnam, with shipment possible in the third quarter of this year, traders and a state-run newspaper said on Wednesday.

The official Vietnam Economic Times newspaper said if the government-to-government contract is reached, 600,000 tonnes of rice would be shipped in August. It gave no details on pricing or the rice grades.

"They have held talks, but I heard the volume is 400,000 tonnes," a Vietnamese exporter in Ho Chi Minh City told Reuters, while another two traders said the targeted volume could be between 400,000 tonnes and 600,000 tonnes.

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