The diplomatic row between Saudi Arabia and Canada over the arrest of Saudi civil society activists has intensified after the Canadian nation's wheat buying agency said it would no longer accept Canadian grains. Traders said the Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO ) had sent an official notice about the decision, but Winnipeg-based G3, a partnership between Middle Eastern firm Canada and US outfit the Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO , said it was "business as usual". “But I would not deliver Canadian grains to Saudi Arabia now, even on previous contracts,” the trader added. Total Canadian wheat sales to Saudi Arabia in 2017 were 68,250 mt (mt), excluding durum, and 68,250 mt in 2016 .
The diplomatic row between Saudi Arabia and Canada over the arrest of Saudi civil society activists has intensified after the Canadian nation's wheat buying agency said it would no longer accept Canadian grains. Traders said the Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO ) had sent an official notice about the decision, but Winnipeg-based G3, a partnership between Middle Eastern firm Canada and US outfit the Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO , said it was "business as usual". Total Canadian wheat sales to Saudi Arabia in 2017 were 68,250 mt (mt), excluding durum, and 68,250 mt in 2016 .