| FRENCH TRADERS FORECAST EC SUGAR TENDER | |
| The European Community (EC) is expected to | |
| award export licences at today's weekly tender for above 60,000 | |
| and possibly up to 100,000 tonnes of white sugar after last | |
| week's award for 102,350 tonnes, traders here said. | |
| They expected a maximum rebate of between 46.40 and 46.50 | |
| Ecus per 100 kilos, compared to last week's 46.864. | |
| Earlier, traders in London said the outcome of the tender | |
| was very hard to predict after last week's substantial award | |
| and the placing of 785,000 tonnes of sugar into intervention. | |
| They said they believed the tonnage would be around 60,000 but | |
| declined to give a rebate figure. | |