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 ...
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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 ...
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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...

Towards a renewable Egypt - Al-Ahram Weekly


Towards a renewable Egypt
Al-Ahram Weekly
Crops such as sugar cane, sugar beet, maize, wheat and barley are used to make ethanol, which can be used as a replacement for gasoline. ...

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Sustainable Sweets: Sugar - Justmeans


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Sustainable Sweets: Sugar
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The sugar we consume that is produced domestically comes from sugar cane grown in Hawaii and the Southeast and sugar beet from the Upper Midwest, ...
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U.S. sugar consumption grows steadily - Great Falls Tribune


Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

U.S. sugar consumption grows steadily
Great Falls Tribune
Table sugar, called sucrose, is a 50/50 combination of glucose and fructose. It comes from refining sugar beets or sugar cane. Turbinado sugar is often ...
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