| EC SUGAR TENDER HARD TO PREDICT - LONDON TRADE | |
| The outcome of today's European Community | |
| (EC) white sugar tender is extremely difficult to predict after | |
| last week's substantial award of 102,350 tonnes at the highest | |
| ever rebate of 46.864 European currency units (Ecus) per 100 | |
| kilos, traders said. | |
| Some said they believed the tonnage would probably be | |
| smaller, at around 60,000 tonnes, but declined to give a view | |
| on the likely restitution. Last week, the European Commission | |
| accepted 785,000 tonnes of sugar into intervention by operators | |
| protesting about low rebates. This might be a determining | |
| factor in today's result, they added. | |