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Brazil’s MY 2017/18 sugarcane crush remains unchanged at 645 mmt. Approximately 48.3 percent of the crop is expected to be diverted to sugar, as a consequence of the continued worldwide sugar deficit.

On October 13, 2017, the Secretariat of Economy (SE) published in the Diario Oficial (Official Gazette) two announcements containing the maximum quota allotment of sugar to be exported....

For Marketing Year 2017/2018 (MY17/18), Post forecasts overall production to be higher than MY16/17, at 590,000 MT due to favorable weather conditions.

Mexican sugar production for marketing year 2017/18 is forecast to be at 6.4 million metric tons rawvalue (MMT-RV).

Colombia’s biofuel production decreased in 2016 as a result of difficult weather conditions that affected its main feedstocks (sugarcane and palm oil).

Brazil’s consumers have a budding appetite for higher-value food products as the country’s economy recovers from a historic recession and its middle class grows.

The Secretariat of Economy (SE) published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register), on August 15, 2017, an announcement containing an extraordinary non-refined sugar quota....

The EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is currently being negotiated between the four Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Sugar production increased 15 percent in 2016/2017 reaching over 732,536 metric tons (MT) due to the favorable climatic conditions.

Heavy rains and flooding in northern Peru during early 2017 slowed growth of cane sugar production, but the Peruvian industry is expected to recover in MY2018.

Argentine sugar production for 2017/18 is forecast at 1.9 million tons (raw basis), a decline of six percent over the previous season.

Domestic sugar production is forecast up to 300,000 metric tons (MT) in marketing year (MY) 2017/18.