Algeria buys at least 500,000 tonnes wheat: traders
Algeria has bought in a tender at least 500,000 tonnes of milling wheat at just under $200 a tonne, cost and freight included, for shipment in March and April, European traders said on Friday.
Iraq has bought 250,000 tonnes of wheat from the United States, Australia and Ukraine, which is enough to cover its needs in 2011, Waleed al- Hilow, Iraq's deputy trade minister, told Reuters on Saturday.