TOKYO, March 9 (Reuters) - Japan would sell imported wheat to domestic millers at an average price of 52,610 yen ($468) per tonne in April-September, down 7.1 percent from the previous six-month period, the farm ministry said on Wednesday.
The move reflects lower international prices amid plentiful global stocks and lower shipping fees. the world's sixth-biggest wheat importer, buys most of its milling grain through import tenders for five types of wheat from Australia, Canada and the United States and sells it to domestic millers at prices set twice a year.
The farm ministry's wheat selling price was set at an average of 56,640 yen for the six months ending this month, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement on its website. ($1 = 112.5200 yen)