CAIRO  - Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) set a tender on Monday to buy an unspecified amount of wheat from global suppliers for shipment from Aug. 21 to Aug. 31.

GASC Vice Chairman Ahmed Youssef said the authority was seeking to buy cargoes of soft and/or milling wheat from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Poland, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Paraguay and Serbia.

Tenders should reach GASC by noon (1000 GMT) on Tuesday. The results should come out after 3:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) on the same day. GASC said it will pay for the grain using letters of credit that guarantee payment within 180 days.

(Reporting by Maha El Dahan in Cairo Writing by Nadine Awadalla Editing by Matthew Lewis) ((Nadine.Awadalla@thomsonreuters.com;))