Required Report - public distribution

**Date:** 8/1/2005

**GAIN Report Number:** SA5012

SA5012

**Saudi Arabia**

**Grain and Feed**

**Barley Quarterly Imports Data**

**2005**

**Approved by:**

![](media/image1.wmf)Fred Giles

U.S. Embassy, Cairo, Egypt

**Prepared by:**

Hussein Mousa

**Report Highlights:**

Saudi Arabian barley imports for the second quarter of calendar year
2005 (April-

June) increased by 36 percent compared to the same period last year.

Includes PSD Changes: No

Includes Trade Matrix: Yes

Quarterly Report

Riyadh \[SA2\]

\[SA\]

Saudi Arabian barley imports for the second quarter of calendar year
2005 (April-June) increased by 36 percent compared to the same period
last year (1,166,212 metric tons

for April-June 2004 compared with 1,580,622 metric tons for the same
period this year). EU supplied 33 percent of the total barley imports,
followed by Australia (27 percent), Ukraine (20 percent), Russia (7
percent), Argentina (7 percent), and the remaining 6 percent was
supplied by other countries (Canada and Romania).

###### Barley Imports: April-June 2005

+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+--------+--------+---------+
| *    | *     |        |       |       |        |        |         |
| *Mon | *Supp |        |       |       |        |        |         |
| th** | lying |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | Coun  |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | tries |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | (     |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | quant |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | ities |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | in    |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | m     |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | etric |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | to    |        |       |       |        |        |         |
|      | ns)** |        |       |       |        |        |         |
+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+--------+--------+---------+
|      | *     | *      | *     | **Rus | *      | *      | **Total |
|      | *EU** | *Austr | *Ukra | sia** | *Argen | *Other | Im      |
|      |       | alia** | ine** |       | tina** | Count  | ports** |
|      |       |        |       |       |        | ries** |         |
+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+--------+--------+---------+
| # A  | 16    | 1      | 10    | 8     | 0      | 39,904 | **55    |
| pril | 9,028 | 56,687 | 6,613 | 5,525 |        |        | 7,757** |
+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+--------+--------+---------+
| **M  | 14    | 1      | 4     | 0     | 1      | 59,484 | **48    |
| ay** | 8,509 | 24,269 | 6,492 |       | 09,051 |        | 7,805** |
+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+--------+--------+---------+
| **Ju | 19    | 1      | 16    | 2     | 0      | 0      | **3     |
| ne** | 5,797 | 47,012 | 5,461 | 6,790 |        |        | 5,060** |
+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+--------+--------+---------+
| *    | *     | **427  | *     | *     | **109  | **99   | **1,58  |
| *Tot | *513, | ,968** | *318, | *112, | ,051** | ,388** | 0,622** |
| al** | 334** |        | 566** | 315** |        |        |         |
+------+-------+--------+-------+-------+--------+--------+---------+

###### Barley Imports: April-June 2004

+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| **Month** | **        |           |           |           |           |
|           | Supplying |           |           |           |           |
|           | Countries |           |           |           |           |
|           | (q        |           |           |           |           |
|           | uantities |           |           |           |           |
|           | in metric |           |           |           |           |
|           | tons)**   |           |           |           |           |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|           | **Au      | **        | *         | *         | ##        |
|           | stralia** | Ukraine** | *Canada** | *Russia** | #### Tota |
|           |           |           |           |           | l Imports |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| **April** | 145,815   | 26,463    | 166,217   | 41,445    | **        |
|           |           |           |           |           | 379,940** |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| **May**   | 341,348   | 53,964    | 53,964    | 60,447    | **        |
|           |           |           |           |           | 445,759** |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| **June**  | 256,089   | 0         | 0         | 0         | **        |
|           |           |           |           |           | 330,513** |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| **Total** | **        | **        | **        | **        | **1,      |
|           | 743,252** | 100,887** | 220,181** | 101,892** | 156,212** |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+

###### 

###### Source: Trade Contacts