USDA REPORTS CORN SOLD TO USSR, TAIWAN

  The U.S. Agriculture Department said
  private U.S. exporters reported new sales of 900,000 tonnes of
  corn to the Soviet Union and 350,000 tonnes of corn switched
  from previously announced unknown destinations to the USSR.
      The corn is for delivery during the 1986/87 marketing year
  and under the fourth year of the U.S.-USSR Long Term Grain
  Supply Agreement, the USDA said.
      The department said exporters also reported corn sales of
  143,000 tonnes for delivery to Taiwan, with 56,000 tonnes for
  shipment in the 1986/87 season and the balance for shipment in
  the 1987/88 year.
      The marketing year for corn began September 1.
      Sales of corn to the USSR for delivery during the fourth
  year of the agreement, which ends this September 30, now total
  2.25 mln tonnes.
  

