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tion of bread in the world," said Ordonez.
"You have to look at the sources of starch," he explained.
"They also consume a lot of rice, but mainly bread and pasta."
Types of Chilean bread include marraquetas, a type of
French bread, and hallullas.
The attaché report said that according to the local bakery
association, Chileans consume an average of almost 100 kilos of bread each per year, making them the second-largest
consumers of bread in the western hemisphere after Germany.
Consumption has been steady, in line with population increase
in recent years.
The main use for wheat is milling, with an estimated 85%
of total wheat supply going for flour. The attaché report put
the total number of mills at 85. "Industry sources indicate that
the wheat produced in Chile is, in general, of a lower quality
than that required by the bread and pasta industry," it said. "It
is mainly low in protein and the quality varies a lot."
Official statistics for this year are not available yet, but Ordonez predicted that 1.8 million tonnes of bread wheat and
roughly 135,000 tonnes of durum would be milled this year.
"They produce around 60,000 tonnes of a type of durum
called Candial," he said. "It can reach up to 98,000 tonnes.
They import 60,000 to 70,000 tonnes a year. They produce
pasta from that."
There has also been an expansion in domestic feed consumption. "A fast growing salmon and trout feed industry has
become an alternative outlet for some wheat producers who
have no storage capacity and have to sell their wheat right after harvest," the attaché report said.
US-CHILE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

The U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement took effect on Jan.
1, 2004. By the release of a U.S. Trade Representative policy
brief on the agreement in September 2007, the agreement had
led to a doubling of total trade between the two countries,
making the U.S. the top source of Chile's imports and the main
destination for its exports.
In 2007, according to the attaché, the U.S. was the biggest
supplier of wheat to Chile, shipping 518,489 tonnes. The other big sources for Chile's wheat imports were Canada, which
exported 147,983 tonnes to Chile, and Argentina, which sent
413,095 tonnes to its South American neighbor. Total wheat
imports were 1.9 million tonnes.

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