CairoEgypt offers mills wheat from LE16,500 a tonne.
Millers and bakers want higher unsubsidised bread prices, but the government held its price caps.
Open-market wheat costs LE16,800-17,200, and exchange registration and trading fees narrow the gap, industry sources say.
Industry sources say the same release in 2023 only fuelled profiteering on a parallel secondary market.
Sales are capped at 500 tonnes per mill, but the ministry has not said the total.
How each outlet framed it
- Mada Masr leans critical
- doubts the wheat release will cut costs, citing the 2023 supply allocation that fed a parallel profiteering market
Sources: Mada Masr