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.

Global Solutions Required for Global Problems

The huge challenges facing the world economy demonstrate – if such demonstration was needed – that ...
Posted: 22nd Oct 09 more info...

SWEETENER USERS WARN LOW U.S. SUGAR SUPPLIES, TROPICAL WEATHER ARE RECIPE FOR HIGHER RETAIL PRICES and MARKET DISRUPTION

Washington, D.C. – July 21, 2009 – Faced with a combination of near-record refined U.S. sugar ...
Posted: 21st Jul 09 more info...

US Leadership “ Essential to Achieving Trade Outcomes

Bringing the Doha Round to a conclusion can deliver worthwhile improvements on the foundation of ...
Posted: 14th Jul 09 more info...

Members meeting

21st October 2009
Annual Members meeting more info...

Global Solutions Required for Global Problems

The huge challenges facing the world economy demonstrate – if such demonstration was needed – that ...
Posted: 22nd Oct 09 more info...

Imperial Sugar Company F1Q10 (Qtr End 12/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha (blog)


Imperial Sugar Company F1Q10 (Qtr End 12/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha (blog)
We have raised our refined sugar prices in an attempt to sustain our margins, but have needed to do so conscious that domestic beet sugar producers do not ...

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Sugar crisis : Govt to import 1.25 million tonnes of sugar to ease situation - Daily Times


Hindu Business Line

Sugar crisis : Govt to import 1.25 million tonnes of sugar to ease situation
Daily Times
Sugar beet production is likely to supplement sugarcane to the tune of 1 million tonnes production in 2011-12. Some parties are introducing brown sugar, ...
1.2 million tons sugar to be importedThe Nation, Pakistan
'Pressure on sugarcane prices likely due to shortage in availability'Hindu Business Line
Sweet as sugarThe Daily Star
The News International
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Sugar Tariffs Cost Americans $2.5 Billion in 2009 - Benzinga


Benzinga

Sugar Tariffs Cost Americans $2.5 Billion in 2009
Benzinga
Like all protection, sugar tariffs exist to protect an inefficient domestic industry (sugar beet farmers) from more efficient foreign producers (cane sugar ...