Paris–The General Authority for the Supply of Commodities (GASC) has announced it plans to import wheat during the first ten days of August, with shipments coming in at 60,000 metric tons each.
Sources at the authority have said that tenders for the import and shipment of wheat will be made separately. GASC’s deputy director, Noamany Noamany, said wheat exports can come from a number of different countries, including the UK, USA, Canada, France, Russia, Germany, Australia, and Kazakhstan.
Speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm, John Pierre Langlois, head of France Export Cereal, an association of French cereal exporters, estimated that Egypt’s wheat needs to produce local bread range between 8-9 million metric tons. He predicted that increased wheat exports to Egypt would reach over 1.3 million metric tons.
Langlois added that the French government has presented a study to Egypt, which includes ideas for the enhancement of wheat granaries.
Langlois assured that the French government is not using wheat exports as a political tool against Egypt. What France is more concerned with, he continued, is the quality of the exports.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
