The Egyptian state's main wheat buying agency said on Friday it wanted to buy 55,000 to 60,000 tonnes of US, French, Australian, German, Argentine and/or Kazakhstan wheat for shipment July 1-10.
Tenders should reach Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) by 12 pm local time (0900 GMT) on Saturday and the results should come out around 4:30 pm local time (1330 GMT) on the same day.
Said el-Hefny, vice chairman of GASC, said the wheat should be US North Pacific soft white wheat, US hard red wheat, US soft red winter wheat, French milling wheat, Australian standard white wheat, Australian hard wheat, German milling wheat, Argentine bread wheat or Kazakhstan milling wheat.