The government is going to buy 12,500 tonnes of sugar from a US company.

The cabinet committee on public purchase today approved a proposal to this end in a meeting chaired by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.

As per the proposal, the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will buy 12,500 tonnes of sugar from the Accentuate Technology Inc in the United States through local company OMC Limited for Tk 66.27 crore through the international open tender system.

After the meeting, journalists wanted to know from Cabinet Division Secretary Saeed Mahbub Khan whether the prime minister's directive was violated by the decision to buy sugar from the American company.

In response, he said: "I do not have the authority to comment on this. I just informed what was passed [in the meeting]."

The cabinet secretary also said there was no discussion on this matter in the meeting.