Global Sugar Alliance members are active participants in processes to improve the world sugar trading environment. Members works closely together to ensure the fair and equal treatment of sugar in the WTO negotiations on agriculture.
US Leadership can tip the Doha balancePolitical vision and leadership is vital to the successful reinvigoration of the WTO Doha Round |
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Doha Round a Phoenix from the ashesThe Doha Round is all about creating significant new commercial opportunities, especially for Developing Countries. Its collapse reflects an underlying lack of good will by the EU and US towards the creation of these opportunities, according to the Global Sugar Alliance. Global Sugar Alliance Chairman, Mr Keith De Lacy said, ?the world?s richest economies have allowed domestic political expediency to stand in the way of good economic sense, to the detriment of us all.? |
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USA Must Reform Sugar ProgramGlobal Sugar Alliance Chairman, Mr Keith De Lacy said the US Sugar Program is out of step. ?It is out of step with other US agricultural policies. It is out of step with the substantial sugar policy reforms occurring in Europe. And, it is out of step with US objectives for an ambitious Doha Round outcome on Market Access?. |
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Global Sugar Alliance to Monitor EU Implementation of WTO Sugar DecisionMeeting in Geneva, the Global Sugar Alliance agreed to closely monitor EU implementation of the WTO decision that EU sugar exports must be limited to 1.273 million tonnes and sugar export subsidy payments must be capped at ?499.1 million. |
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Special Agricultural Safeguard Must Be AbolishedA key issue for sugar is the abolition of the Special Agricultural Safeguard (SSG). ?The SSG, introduced as a temporary measure in the Uruguay Round to facilitate transition, must be abolished?, Mr De Lacy said. ?The SSG is a third tier duty specifically designed to block market access.? |
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WTO Must Pass the Sugar TestThe Doha Round must create significant new commercial opportunities according to the Global Sugar Alliance. |
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Sugar time to address the real issuesThe American Sugar Alliance Dumped Sugar paper is factually incorrect, selective and no doubt is designed to mislead. |
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Sugar ? an Opportunity for LeadershipThe WTO Ministerial must deliver fair and equal treatment for sugar according to the Global Sugar Alliance. For too long sugar has been side-lined as a so-called sensitive product in world trade negotiations. ?This is no longer acceptable.? |
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US, EU AND JAPANESE SUGAR POLICIES MUST CHANGESugar trade liberalisation is long overdue and there is no reasonable case for maintaining the current protectionist policies of the world?s three richest economies of the EU, US and Japan, according to the Australian delegation attending the World Trade Organisation?s (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Seattle. |
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GLOBAL ALLIANCE LOOKS FORWARD TO US SUGAR PARTICIPATIONThe recently formed influential international group Global Alliance for Sugar Trade Reform and Liberalisation confirmed its commitment to genuine free trade today in Seattle as the Chilean sugar industry announced its membership. |
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Sugar: Internation Policies Affecting Marketing ExpansionThis report represents a further step in ABARE's ongoing research into policy issues affecting world commodity markets and international trade. |
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SUGAR MESSAGE FOR WTO MINISTERS NOT SO SWEETA unified force of 12 sugar producing countries, including some of the world?s largest producing and exporting countries, today issued a communique urging WTO Ministers to ensure positive, progressive and meaningful reform of sugar trade policies was achieved from this round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations commencing in Seattle. |
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Sugar ? time to address the real issues?The American Sugar Alliance ?Dumped Sugar? paper is factually incorrect, selective and no doubt is designed to mislead. |
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