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Thailand sells 21,200 tonnes white sugar to India

Fri Jul 3, 2009 9:31am IST
 
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BANGKOK, July 3 (Reuters) - Thailand has sold 21,200 tonnes of white sugar to India for prompt shipment, traders and industry officials said on Friday.

"That was the second lot, after we sold the first lot in five years of 15,000 tonnes to New Delhi in April," one trader said.

Around 6,700 tonnes was believed to have been sold through Cargill and the other 14,500 tonnes through Louis Dreyfus, said an official at the Office of The Cane and Sugar Board. (Reporting by Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat; Editing by Alan Raybould)

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