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Egypt's GASC buys 60,000 tonnes of wheat from France
Thursday 20-11-2014 04:40 PM
Farmers check grain seeds as they harvest wheat crop in 6 October village in the Nile Delta province of Al-Baheira, northwest of Cairo May 22, 2014. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
CAIRO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Egypt's state grain buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), said on Thursday it had bought 60,000 tonnes of wheat from France for shipment on Dec. 21-31.
Egypt, one of the world's top state importers of wheat, bought from Soufflet at a price of $259.87 a tonne on a cost and freight basis, Mamdouh Abdel Fattah, vice chairman of the state grain buyer said, following a tender. (Reporting by Lin Noueihed; editing by Jane Baird)
