EU awards 15,000 tonnes of wheat imports under quotas

PARIS: The European Union this week awarded licences to import just over 15,000 tonnes of wheat under its annual tariff-rate quota (TRQ) system, official data showed on Thursday.

The award included 14,593 tonnes under the EU's main reduced-tariff quota for wheat of all origins except the United States and Canada, and 491 tonnes via a separate any-origin wheat quota.

For the main wheat quota, there remained just over 1 million tonnes available until the end of 2018 and for the smaller any-origin quota there were 12,630 tonnes still available, the data showed.