Sugar Relations Turn Sour As Brazil Calls for India Subsidy Cut While Price Dissolves — Panjiva
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Sugar Relations Turn Sour As Brazil Calls for India Subsidy Cut While Price Dissolves

Ags - Softs 143 Brazil 416 Consumer Staples 807 India 553 Tariffs 1870 U.S. 5404

The declining world sugar price – now close to the lowest since September 2015 – has led to calls from Brazil among others for India to cut its export subsidies. The subsidies have not been transformative, with Indian exports down 29% in February vs. a year earlier while average prices globally fell 32%. However, volumes elsewhere are falling rapidly. Total American seaborne imports – which accounted for 14% of Indian exports in the past year – dropped 34% in the first quarter. Exports from Brazil (the largest global producer) fell 19% in the three months to Fe...

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