CAIRO: The Egyptian state's main wheat-buying agency, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), on Tuesday set a tender to buy an unspecified amount of wheat from global suppliers for May 11-20 shipment.

Nomani Nomani, vice chairman of GASC, one of the world's biggest state importers of wheat, said the agency is seeking to buy cargoes of soft and/or milling wheat from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Britain, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Romania.