TOKYO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Japan will sell imported wheat to domestic millers at an average price of 52,510 yen ($482) per tonne in the six months from October, up 3.6 percent from the previous six-month period, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said.
The move reflects higher wheat prices in its main suppliers, the United States and Australia, higher shipping rates and a weaker yen, the ministry said in a statement.
Japan, 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. ($1 = 109.0400 yen)