Vietnam - the Ministries of Industry and Trade (MOIT) and Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) have proposed the Government to grant quotas to import 150,000 tons of sugar.

Sugar industry: local production protection will not help ...
Vietnam Business News

As the domestic sugar price has increased, the Ministries of Industry and Trade (MOIT) and Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) have proposed the Government to grant quotas to import 150000 tons of sugar. However, the Vietnam Sugar ...

Ukraine - By the association's forecasts, production costs for making sugar of the new sugar beet yield will make up UAH 5,500-6,500/ton (USD 1/UAH 7.90).

Ukrtsukor forecasts launch of 70-75 sugar refineries in 2010-2011 season
UkrAgroConsult

Kotkov underscored that the number of plants that are launched for sugar production in 2010 will increase due to a rise of the sugar beet gross yield ...

A severe drought from May through June over Brazil's main center-south cane crop will trim sugar and ethanol output

Drought to trim Brazil CS sugar output-Datagro
Reuters Africa By Reese Ewing

SAO PAULO, July 23 (Reuters) - A severe drought from May through June over Brazil's main center-south cane crop will trim sugar and ethanol ...

The firm demand and crimped availability that are driving sugar prices higher are as uncertain as the weather, Rabobank says in a market letter.

DJ MARKET TALK: Sugar Market Outlook Remains Uncertain
Rabobank

It's questionable if the increase in sugar buying for import is temporary or will be sustained. Weather-related market developments throw another unknown ...

“The government will have to urgently import before stocks run out,” Iskander Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association, said by phone from Islamabad. Current inventories of 800,000 tons will last only until September, he said.

Sugar Heads for Longest Streak of Weekly Advances Since January on Demand
Bloomberg

... that demand remains robust in a deficit market. The South Asian nation may need to import as much as 700000 metric tons of white sugar by September, ...

India - ISMA’s estimates are also at odds with the government’s assessment. The food ministry had recently projected carryover stocks at less than 2mt.

Sugar data in a cloud amid factory-farmers tussle
Economic Times

Farmers groups have charged the industry of manipulating data on sugarcane acreage and sugar production to prop up market sentiment, an allegation that ISMA ...

Azerbaijan imported 156,743.3 tons of sugar in first half of 2010,

NewsAz Azerbaijan increases sugar import in first half
News.az

Sugar import has increased by 11.6% compared to JanuaryJune 2009 sources in the State Customs Committee said. In 2009 Azerbaijan imported 306744.9 tons of ...

Ukraine - Astarta may increase output to 320,000 metric tons up 42 percent Chief Executive Officer Viktor Ivanchyk said.

Astarta, Ukraine's Biggest Sugar Refiner, to Boost Output, Ivanchyk Says
Bloomberg

This year, the Agriculture Ministry forecast the sugar beet harvest will be 17 million tons, up 70 percent from last year. The government expects refined ...

Mexico's 2009-2010 sugar harvest yielded production of 4.825 million metric tons of sugar, down 2.8% from 4.962 million in the previous season, the Agriculture Ministry said.

DJ Mexico's 2009-2010 Sugar Harvest Ends At 4.825M Tons -Ministry
MEXICO CITY, Jul 20, 2010 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex)

Mexico';s 2009-2010 sugar harvest yielded production of 4.825 million metric tons of

European Union sugar production may fall because of dry weather in the region, according to an official at the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm.

EU Sugar Production May Fall Because of Dry Weather
BusinessWeek

European Union sugar production may fall because of dry weather in the region, according to an official at the 27-nation bloc's executive arm.

Jamaica is among two of five member countries of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean (SAC) which were still in production at the end of last month.

Sugar production on target for July
Go Jamaica

According to SAC data, total sugar production for the year to date amounted to 453, 320 tonnes. The association says Guyana has completed its first crop and ...

India - The country is expected to have sugar stocks of 5.9 million tonnes in the current crop year, ending September, about 84 per cent more than the previous year,

ISMA expects sugar stocks to increase to 5.9 mn tn in 2009-10
Economic Times 20 Jul 2010, 1749 hrs IST,

PTI NEW DELHI: The country is expected to have sugar stocks of 5.9 million tonnes in the current crop year, ending September,

Pierre-Henri Dietz, analyst a sugar merchant Sucden, warned that New York raw sugar prices will in "the medium term… recover a downward trend to $0.12-0.14 cents [per pound] range".

Sugar prices set for stormy decline of up to 30%
Agrimoney.com

Furthermore, the size of India's swings in sugar production was "becoming too large for… the sugar market" which "will remain volatile given this risk"

Brazilian Port constraints are shown to reduce tonnage shipped Jly/Sep 2010 by 580000 tonnes of raws and 450000 tonnes of whites.

In the last three months only of Crop Year Oct 09 to Oct 10,  Port constraints are shown to reduce tonnage shipped by 580000 tonnes of raws and 450000 tonnes of whites.  In addition, there is an increase in market prices of USD60/MT and USD55/MT-USD75/MT for Raw and Whites Fobs Brazil respectively.
Sugarflows 19 July 2010

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