Iran sought 900,000 tonnes corn, barley soymeal this week-trade

A worker uses a plastic sheet to cover sacks of rice at a wholesale grain market in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh February 9, 2012. A payment problem over Indian rice exports to Iran will "unlock itself" once the trade settlement mechan

The tenders were said to have closed on Tuesday.

By Valerie Parent and Michael Hogan, Reuters News

PARIS/HAMBURG- Iranian state-owned animal feed importer SLAL this week held international tenders to buy 300,000 tonnes of feed barley, 300,000 tonnes of corn and 300,000 tonnes of soymeal but no purchases were believed to have been made, European traders said on Wednesday.

The tenders were said to have closed on Tuesday. But sanctions on Iran is making trade finance difficult and participation was thin, they said.