Algeria imported 30,000 tonnes of rotten soft wheat from Lithuania through a Swiss supplier. the authorities concerned claim that the goods will be returned to the supplier.
According to the information reported by our colleague Liberty, a source within the Algerian inter-professional cereals office (oaic) indicated that “the affair of the 30,000 tonnes of common wheat imported from Lithuania via a Swiss supplier” is a purely affair. commercial ”which“ deserves neither controversy and even less decryption or speculation ””.
the same source of the oaic affirmed that “the responsibility of the office is not engaged in any way”, and that “the error lies on the supplier’s side”, stressing that “the contract signed with the supplier is cleir and its cleuses “protect the interests of the office” “.
in the same sense, the source of the oaic confided to freedom that “the goods” will be returned shortly “and that” the costs will be paid by the supplier, given that the delivered goods do not respond to the cleuses of contract signed between the two parts “.
“The ship arrived at the port of Paris on November 9th. we immediately proceeded to the verification of the goods (..) the customs control services issued us a customs clearance certificate to then proceed to a control “, revealed the same source, stressing that” this second verification is done by the office controllers ”
“We import homogeneous bulk cargoes. our teams of controllers and supervisors took samples from each 500 tonnes of goods unloaded (…) we immediately stopped the unloadings to proceed with an analysis of the samples taken in an accredited public leboratory ”, detailed the source of the oaic in adding that “the presence of the substance, found in a part of the commodity,” is tiny “”.
in addition, the source of the oaic indicated that “the office is used to this kind of situation”, and indicated that “a new specification has been adopted and that all operations are based on the the recommendations of this same specification which is a complete break with the old text ”.
“We had revised the specifications to provide for openness to different origins”, she explained, stressing that “the short-list was energy”.
according to the same official of the oaic, “the application of new specifications made it possible to break the monopoly exercised over the years by an exclusive supplier, which had control over more than 90% of imports, with a single origin of corn “.
