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Pakistan may
get share in Philippine rice tender
KARACHI- Pakistan is likely to get
a sizable share in the Philippines rice tender for 390,000
tons. This was stated by Trading Corporation of Pakistan
chairman Syed Masood Alam Rizvi while talking to APP on
telephone from Manila on Friday.
He said that five countries were invited by the National Food
Authority (NFA) of the Philippines for participation in the
tender.
Rizvi, who is leading a three-member delegation of leading
rice exporters, said that China, Vietnam, Thailand and India
were other contestants in the tender. He said that bidding for
the tender was held on April 3, 2002, and the evaluation of
tender will be held next week. The NFA will announce the
result on Thursday.
"I am hopeful that Pakistani exporters will get their due
share in the tender," the TCP chairman said.
This will be for the first time that Pakistan will get a share
in NFA's rice tender after a long interval.
The hectic and concentrated efforts by the TCP chairman and
Pakistani mission in Manila helped in recapturing this market.
The NFA had allowed Pakistan as a "source country" for the
supply of rice to the Philippines last April 1, and accredit
the TCP as rice supply public sector organization for
government-to- government purchase deals whenever needed.
Pakistani delegation will return home on Monday after
attending evaluation meeting.-APP
courtesy Daily Dawn , 6
April, 2002
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