# Barley finds a home in Mexico as CBH sends first shipment from WA - ABC News

> CBH Group shipped 35,000 tonnes of malting barley from Albany, Western Australia, to Mexico, a first for the Australian grains industry. CBH says Saudi Arabia, the second-largest barley importer at about 7 million tonnes a year, is also an opening, and Australian feed barley is price competitive against Russian and Ukrainian supply.

- Date: 2021-01-20 · published 2021-01-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region Australia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/49221-barley-finds-a-home-in-mexico-as-cbh-sends-first-shipment-from-wa-abc-news
- Commodities: [Barley](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARLEY.md)

## Why it matters

New export markets for Australian barley ease reliance on China and support Australian barley prices, while the Mexico shipment is a small addition to global barley trade flows.

## Read by commodity

- BARLEY: bullish ▲

## Sources

- abc.net.au: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-01-20/wa-barley-shipped-to-mexico-after-china-trade-ban/13072342

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