1.   Canadian and U.S. trade officials are scheduled to meet in Ottawa on Friday to discuss rising Canadian wheat shipments to the U.S., the U.S. Agriculture Department said.

2.   China bans all American citrus fruit from its market and has refused to accept wheat shipments from the Pacific Northwest or tobacco from the Southeast.

3.   Kansas City and Chicago wheat futures prices closed sharply lower Thursday on fears that China might reject U.S. wheat shipments.

4.   U.S. pasta makers are urging the Clinton administration keep Canada wheat shipments flowing into the U.S. as a commitment to free trade.

5.   U.S. sales were eroded in part by lower wheat shipments following another record Chinese harvest, and slower economic growth in China, Holden said.

6.   Wheat shipments were up sharply, and Kansas City Southern Railway began doing business with J.B. Hunt Transport Services in the quarter.

7.   Whether another wheat shipment reaches them may make the difference between subsistence and starvation.

8.   But any kind of cap or limit on wheat shipments is out of the question.

9.   Hussein accused the previous government of Benazir Bhutto of being late in ordering wheat shipments, a charge Ms. Bhutto has denied.

10.   Iraq received its first wheat shipment Monday under the U.N.-approved oil-for-food deal, the official Iraqi News Agency reported.