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AWB still not accredited to export wheat

5/09/2008 1:37:00 PM

The Wheat Exports Australia (WEA) has accredited six more companies to export bulk wheat this year, and again AWB is missing from the list.

The latest exporters to be accredited by WEA are: ABB Grain; Concordia Agritrading (Australia); Glencore Grain; GrainCorp; Louis Dreyfus Australia; and Marubeni Australia.

This brings to 11 the total number of accreditations under the Wheat Export Accreditation Scheme in the nine weeks since the Wheat Export Marketing Act 2008 came into effect on 1 July 2008.

"The 11 exporters accredited to date have met the eligibility criteria in the Bulk Scheme and will provide greater confidence to wheat growers and the industry for marketing and exporting the coming wheat harvest," WEA acting chief executive officer, Peter Woods.

"WEA is currently considering other applications as they are submitted by exporters.

"While all companies are being treated equally in this process, it should be noted that some applications are more complicated than others and will naturally take longer to process."

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Was the failure of AWB to be granted a licence an attempt by Wheat Exports Australia to assist the company in getting rid of growers through the removal of article 2?There are strong links between AWB operatives and Wheat Exports Australia. Labor and Liberal also had a vested interest in seeing the company normalised and then spliced and diced - Labor so that nothing resembling orderly marketing could be re-established and Liberal because incriminating documents from Oil for Food could be shredded as the company is split up.

Posted by Jock on 7/09/2008 6:58:56 PM

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