Ethiopia postpones tender to buy 400,000 tonnes wheat  

•  Traders said they believed the tender would now take place on April 23 but were awaiting confirmation.
• The tender had been scheduled to close on Tuesday, April 7.

HAMBURG: An Ethiopian government agency has postponed an international tender to buy 400,000 tonnes of milling wheat, European traders said on Tuesday.

The tender had been scheduled to close on Tuesday, April 7.

Traders said they believed the tender would now take place on April 23 but were awaiting confirmation.

A separate tender from Ethiopia to buy 200,000 tonnes of wheat is scheduled to close on April 15.