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...

Stoll: Soda tax falls totally flat - New York Daily News


Stoll: Soda tax falls totally flat
New York Daily News
The federal government has spent billions of dollars to subsidize the growing of sugar beets, sugarcane and corn that become high-fructose corn syrup. ...

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Sugar production from sugar beet: Industry seeks ST exemption - Daily Times


Sugar production from sugar beet: Industry seeks ST exemption
Daily Times
But a processing plant exclusively for sugar beet is not economical. It is viable only if its processing is done as a supplement to cane processing after ...

Debate rages over corn syrup and sugar - Vineland Daily Journal


Debate rages over corn syrup and sugar
Vineland Daily Journal
... to sugar are false and misleading. . . . Sugar exists naturally in almost every fruit and vegetable, but most abundantly in sugar cane and sugar beets."

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