In the nine months to the end of June, Australian wheat exports to China were triple the sales made in the prior financial year (2008-09).Commodity analyst Malcolm Bartholomaeus says deregulation of wheat exports has played a main role.
"Under the old arrangements, it would emerge that AWB used to deal with either just one government-backed industry or a very minute number of entities," he says.
"So now I think a larger number of mills can come straight into the Australian market and buy what they need in any smaller bulk parcels or in the container market."
