DUTCH SUGAR TRADE DENY INVOLVEMENT IN OFFER Dutch sugar traders deny involvement in a plan to offer more than 850,000 tonnes of sugar to intervention in protest at EC export policy and prices, traders told Reuters. Although some 2,500 tonnes of sugar have been offered to intervention in the Netherlands, Dutch producers and traders said this sugar was actually Belgian and was being offered by the Belgian industry. "We sympathise with the actions of the French, West German and Belgian traders and producers, but we are not party to it," a spokesman said. EC Commission sources said yesterday French traders planned to sell 775,000 tonnes into intervention stocks, West German traders 75,000 tonnes and Dutch traders 2,500. Dutch trade sources gave the same figure for France, but estimated up to 110,000 tonnes offered by German traders and producers. The Dutch spokesman added, "The weekly export tender policy and prices are squeezing the European sugar industry, and this is the only way in which they can really register their protest. "These are desperate actions, but we believe that most of this offered sugar will be withdrawn within the three-week breathing space allowed."