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...

Would-be regulators put sugar in the cross hairs - Daytona Beach News-Journal


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Would-be regulators put sugar in the cross hairs
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Instead, it seems, the Nanny State advocates are building a case against sugar. That's right -- the natural sweetener found in cane and beets is akin to tobacco and alcohol, they say. Yes, they're going after the millennia-old sweetener used in cookies ...
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Biofuels sector 'frustrated' by lack of a policy framework - Business Day


Biofuels sector 'frustrated' by lack of a policy framework
Business Day
Crops proposed for biofuel production include sugar cane and sugar beet for bio-ethanol, and sunflower, canola and soya beans for biodiesel. The government, along with other stakeholders like the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), ...

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Inside Congress, no one beats the beet lobby - Minneapolis Star Tribune


Inside Congress, no one beats the beet lobby
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Paul Rutherford, Vice President of the Red River Sugarbeet Growers Association, began harvesting beets in his fields near Euclid in late September. EUCLID, MINN. - Paul Rutherford stared over his tilled fields of sugar beets, his gaze focused on ...

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