Australia sold 180,000 tonnes of rawsugar to the Soviet Union for shipment in the next few weeks,
Queensland Primary Industries Minister Neville Harper said.
    Loading of a 50,000-tonne cargo on the Soviet freighter
Nikolay Kuznetsov for shipment to Odessa was completed today at
the Lucinda terminal, he said in a statement.
    The balance will be shipped from Mackay by end-March,
Harper said.
    Australia exported 159,000 tonnes of sugar to the Soviet
Union in 1986.
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