In June 2019 European traders told Nasdaq that an Ethiopian government company had issued an international tender to buy up to 100,000 tonnes of white cane sugar.
Sugar imports are a recurring signal of domestic production gaps and foreign-exchange pressure, so tender size and timing remain useful markers for Horn agribusiness readers.
Kept as agribusiness archive, the tender note dates Ethiopia’s mid-2019 effort to secure white sugar on world markets.
Sources: Nasdaq / Reuters traders