Egypt’s General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) announced it has purchased 420,000 tons of wheat from Russia and Romania on June 12. Through an international bid, Egypt imported 300,000 tons of wheat from Russia and further 120,000 tons from Romania, GASC said. The imported wheat is expected to be shipped between July 15 and 25. On May 28, Egypt lifted its ban on Russian imports of wheat that reportedly contained traces of ergot fungus. Between 2010 and 2016 the Egyptian ministry of agriculture tolerated a limit of 0.05 percent of the fungus in the country’s wheat imports, an internationally recognized standard. The ministry overturned this in an August 2016 decision, instituting a zero-tolerance policy, which threatened to stop Russian shipments of the grain to Egypt.