61.   Wheat and corn pulled prices of agricultural commodities sharply lower Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade in a retrenchment of recent gains.

62.   Wheat was pressured by the decline in the other agricultural commodities.

63.   Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has agreed to increase import tariffs on all food and agricultural commodities in the near-term, a report said Tuesday.

64.   Agricultural commodities such as cocoa and coffee varied little on the week.

65.   ASEAN members in September decided to set up a panel to resolve the thorny issue of freeing sensitive agricultural commodities among themselves.

66.   But such agricultural commodities as coffee, cocoa and sugar fell this week due particularly to profit-taking in the wake of sharp price rises the previous week.

67.   Directors were also concerned that import quotas on agricultural commodities were being replaced by prohibitively high tariffs.

68.   Elsewhere, prices of all agricultural commodities rose or remained stable with the exception of coffee, which dropped after better weather conditions in Brazil.

69.   US officials maintained that such assistance depressed world farm prices and harmed the interests of developing countries that export agricultural commodities.