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LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Gasoline refining margins innorthwest Europe dropped on Wednesday for a third day in a rowas U.S. gasoline futures plummeted despite a draw in weeklystocks.
* U.S. gasoline stocks fell 2.8 million barrelslast week, the second-biggest weekly draw since mid-April,compared with expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.1million-barrel drop, according to EIA data.
* Gasoline imports into the U.S. East Coast (PADD1) rosesharply last week to 794,000 barrels per day, up nearly 200,000bpd from the previous week.
* European transatlantic gasoline exports slowed downsharply in August, with around 600,000 tonnes booked so far togo from Europe to the U.S. East Coast, Mexico and Canada,according to Reuters shipping data.
* Egypt's EGPC issued a tender to buy two cargoes ofgasoline for August delivery, according to traders.
* Trading activity in Europe was slow.
GASOLINE
* Gunvor sold to Varo one barge of benchmark ebob gasolinein the afternoon window at $428 a tonne fob ARA, down from $440a tonne on Tuesday.
* Some 12,000 tonnes traded throughout the day at $437-$443atonne fob Amsterdam-Rotterdam, compared with $437-$441 a tonne.Gunvor and Vitol sold to Shell.
* Three barges of premium unleaded gasoline traded at $442 atonne fob ARA, down from $452 a tonne. Rolympus and Vitol soldto Total.
* Gasoline barge refining margins fell to $8.88 a barrel,from $9.17.
* The September swap stood at around $433 a tonne at theclose, down from $444.50 a tonne.
* Brent crude oil futures were down 82 cents $44.16a barrel by 1606 GMT.
* U.S. August RBOB gasoline futures were down 2.74percent at 1.3103 a gallon.
* The U.S. gasoline crack
NAPHTHA
* No naphtha cargoes traded. Offers were seen at $344 atonne cif NWE. (Reporting by Ahmad Ghaddar)
