Sugar price spikes will continue to worry importers
Sugar has a highly cyclical price, and there are concerns about how long high prices may last
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- Cyclical crop
- Inventories are crucial
- Ethanol
- Corn
- Currency fluctuations
- Key producers/importers
- India
- China
- EU
- Thailand
- North America
- Use in food and drink
- Outlook
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_350.jpg "Egyptians gather to buy subsidised sugar from a government truck after a sugar shortage, Cairo (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)")