# Raw Rice

> Thai rice export prices fell to a more than three-year low as US tariffs announced April 2 and a global rice surplus weighed on the market. Chicago rough rice futures were quoted around $13.48 per hundredweight in the page's data.

- Date: 2025-04-03 · published 2025-04-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region Thailand · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/25191-raw-rice
- Commodities: [Rough Rice](https://feedsoft.ai/c/RICE.md), [Thai Baht (THB per USD)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/USDTHB.md)

## Why it matters

Lower Thai white rice prices reduce the cost of broken rice and rice-based feed ingredients, pressuring rice byproduct values and offering cheap substitutes for corn and other feed grains.

## Read by commodity

- RICE: bearish ▼
- USDTHB: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RICE | 2024-12-20 | [W50 2024: Rice Weekly Update](https://feedsoft.ai/events/11557-w50-2024-rice-weekly-update.md) | -4.5% | +4.0% |
| RICE | 2024-07-26 | [VIETNAM RICE EXPORTER \| VIETNAM RICE MILLER \| VIETNAM RICE SELLER](https://feedsoft.ai/events/29325-vietnam-rice-exporter-vietnam-rice-miller-vietnam-rice-seller.md) | +0.4% | -0.6% |
| RICE | 2025-09-30 | [Vietnam’s rice market – September 2025](https://feedsoft.ai/events/22944-vietnam-s-rice-market-september-2025.md) | -2.9% | -9.5% |
| RICE | 2024-11-19 | [Lower rice prices coming in 2025 – think tank](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27482-lower-rice-prices-coming-in-2025-think-tank.md) | -1.5% | -1.2% |
| RICE | 2026-02-13 | [The reduction in prices for raw rice has led to a drop in profitability in the industry.](https://feedsoft.ai/events/20673-the-reduction-in-prices-for-raw-rice-has-led-to-a-drop-in-profitability-in-the.md) | -9.2% | -1.5% |

## Sources

- marketscreener.com: https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/future/ROUGH-RICE-FUTURE-ZR-CBE--3881394/news/ASIA-RICE-Trump-s-tariffs-surplus-sink-Thai-rice-prices-to-over-3-yr-low-49520716/

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