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MEĐUNARODNA ORGANIZACIJA ZA VUNU - eastern clean quotes - 17. listopada 1996. cijene su u australskim centima po kg _________________________________________________________________ Fine merino 19m 809 Med merino 21m 619 Fine merino 20m 703 Med merino 22m 574 Broad merino 23m 510 Comeback 25m 469 Broad merino 24m 484 Comeback 26m 463n Fine Xbred 27m 456n Med Xbred 29m 449n Fine Xbred 28m 451n Med Xbred 30m 449n Med Xbred 31m 446n Merino cardings 421 Xbred cardings 382n Eastern mkt ind 564 RTRS-Australian wool indicator rises 2c to 564c/kg SYDNEY, Oct 17 (Reuter) - The Australian eastern wool market indicator continued to rise on Thursday, adding two cents to 564 cents a kg clean at sales in Goulburn and Adelaide, Wool International (WI) said. Merino fleece prices mostly rose, with 19 micron slightly dearer, 20/21m 0.5 percent dearer and 22m 1.0 percent dearer. The 23/24/25m categories were up to 1.0 percent cheaper while 26m was unchanged. Merino skirtings were up to 1.0 percent dearer. In crossbreds, 27/28m were 1.0 percent dearer, 29/30m up to 1.0 percent dearer and 31m 0.5 percent dearer. In cardings, lambs were 3.0 percent dearer, locks up to 1.0 percent dearer and crutchings generally unchanged. WI said Japanese and Chinese interests were principal buyers with good support from Italy and most sectors including local mills. Of 19,109 bales offered in both centres, 6.6 percent were passed in. Sales continue next week in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle with about 99,600 bales to be offered. _________________________________________________________________ Bradford - cijene vune - 17. listopada 1996. cijene u penijima/kg _________________________________________________________________ MERINO CROSSBRED 70s SUPER 513 58s SUPER 375 66s SUPER 458 58s BLENDED 353 64s SUPER 415 56s SUPER 358 64s BLENDED 408 54s CARDED 340 60s SUPER 385 50s CARDED 330 60s BLENDED 363 58s ENGLISH 275 56s ENGLISH 265 50s ENGLISH 261 Bradford wool market sees big boost for finer tops BRADFORD, Oct 17 (Reuter) - The Bradford wool market saw a significant improvement in prices for finer tops after a good week for wool producers in the main primary markets, trade sources said. Prices for 64s-70s were up by an average of eight pence per kg with 458 quality seeing a substantial twelve pence increase for the highest quotation. But attempts by topmakers to follow the raw wool market with across-the-board increases were strongly resisted by retail buyers, sources said. "As soon as price increases are suggested, the door shuts," one said. "Resistance from the retail end seems a lot more determined than ever," another added. The growth in synthetic fibres and the art of blending has seen an end to the days when tops prices could really build on the back of strength in the primary markets, another said. Values for coarser types remained unchanged which together with the steady level of demand (mostly from domestic buyers), led several sources to speak of "some basis" for a sustainable recovery being established. "Wool is aided by the fact that it is a low cost fibre at the moment," one broker said. Evidence of increasing interest in finer wools by Japan and China (both buyers of all types of wool and important customers for the UK) also helped to support the mild bullishness in he trade, another said. But as one source put it "noone in this market is thinking in terms of a boom." 211100 MET oct 96