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ment-appointed commissioners.
Prior to the accession of the Conservative Party, the CWB
had its own plans to transform itself somewhat along the
lines of the AWB, in order to move into higher-margin processed products, so that farmers could share in the profits of
some of the value-added activities that international grain
companies often specialize in. However, just as the AWB
depended on the single desk as a basis for its public share
offering and entry into synergistic areas, the CWB's retention of its monopoly is a prerequisite for planning any such
transformation.
With the single desk in doubt, the CWB has begun a series
of management reforms to better track its performance as
part of an undeclared campaign to convince farmers that it

It is interesting to note that most of the
largest customers of Canadian wheat, with
the U.S. being the main exception, are countries with government wheat import monopolies like Japan, Iran and Indonesia.

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does indeed operate efficiently, even in the absence of competition from other buyers.
The future of the CWB monopoly is of particular interest
to the biggest users of Canadian wheat. Canada's 10-year
export average is 15.8 million tonnes, and the world's largest
wheat exporter, the U.S., has been Canada's biggest customer in that period, taking 10% of the total. The second-biggest
customer is Japan, with an average of 1.4 million tonnes per
year, and Iran is the third largest at 1.2 million tonnes per
year. However, Iran's purchases peaked at 3.5 million tonnes
in 2000-01, the most by any country in 10 years, and have
fallen dramatically since.
It is notable that a number of the largest customers for
Canadian wheat, with the U.S. being the main exception,
are countries with government wheat import monopolies
like Japan and Iran. Algeria, in theory, has liberalized wheat
imports, but its state grain company acts as a de facto single
desk for durum imports. Such large government-to-government contracts are naturally a prime target for an organization like the CWB, which must move almost 16 million
tonnes of wheat per year. But with so many non-commercial factors at play, the question Canada's farmers must ask
themselves is whether they truly are getting the best possible
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deal enough of the time.
David McKee is a grain industry consultant providing market research
and other services to companies seeking to initiate business in new
markets. He can be reached by e-mail at davidmckee59@msn.com.
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