Welcome to the Global Alliance for Sugar Trade Reform and Liberalisation

Welcome to the Global Alliance for Sugar Trade Reform and Liberalisation

The Global Sugar Alliance members are the world's leading sugar producing nations, representing over 50% of world sugar production and more than 85% of world raw sugar exports. The objective of the group is to achieve positive, progressive and meaningful liberalisation of the world sugar market.

The Global Alliance for Sugar Trade Reform and Liberalisation was established during in November 1999 when members (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, India, Guatemala, South Africa and Thailand) agreed and signed a communiqué calling for WTO agreement on agriculture that includes positive, progressive, and meaningful reform of the world sugar market by ensuring that sugar is included as an important element of the agricultural trade agenda.

Open markets – the key to ethanol and sugar growth

The Global Sugar Alliance has a simple clear objective – to secure a world in which the trade in ...
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Trade Barriers cause High Sugar Prices

World sugar prices recently at the highest levels in 30 years reflect a tight world market. The ...
Posted: 1st Dec 10 more info...

Global Solutions Required for Global Problems

The huge challenges facing the world economy demonstrate – if such demonstration was needed – that ...
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Annual members meeting

2nd December 2010
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Open markets – the key to ethanol and sugar growth

The Global Sugar Alliance has a simple clear objective – to secure a world in which the trade in ...
Posted: 1st Dec 10 more info...

Brazil sugar output gap filled by other origins - Business Recorder (blog)


Brazil sugar output gap filled by other origins
Business Recorder (blog)
Brazil's center-south 2012/13 sugarcane harvest is struggling to expand this year after disappointing output in the 2011/12 season, which was caused by a mixture of bad weather and overdue replanting of ageing cane plants. The global sugar surplus is ...
Sugar: Back to Surplus, and a return to Normality?Commodities Now

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What is Demerara Sugar? - Care2.com


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What is Demerara Sugar?
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Without question, we all have a pretty good idea of what sugar is. White refined sugar, which is the most common form of sugar commercially found, is usually made from either sugarcane (a perennial grass) or sugar beets (a sort of tuber).

NY sugar, cocoa end up, coffee off, trade technical - Reuters


NY sugar, cocoa end up, coffee off, trade technical
Reuters
Escalating violence in Syria has slowed sugar refining to a virtual standstill, with smuggling set to rise as Western sanctions hobble trade finance and disrupt imports of the staple sweetener, trade sources said. * Sugar beet sowings in most Russian ...

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