Global centers for trading rice.
Here are websites that update prices in China, Japan, Thailand and Brazil daily or during trading
hours. Some enjoy good trade volume and price discovery, others less so. The US is a medium
size rice exporter but has the most active rice futures contract in the world, administered and
operated by the CMEGroup in Chicago and London. Click here to get a recent report on the new
Thailand 5% rice futures contract with price assessment by Platts. Key cash markets for milled
rice included 5% markets in the Americas (Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and the US Gulf
Coast. In Asia, we follow rice export 5% prices in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Vietnam and
Thailand as well as domestic value inside China, the largest producer and consumer of rice in
the world.