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Federal Budget: Sugar manufacturers call for a new approach to industry policy in the wake of emerging international trade uncertainty | 3 February 2025

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The Australian Sugar Milling Council (ASMC) has released its 2025-26 Federal Pre-Budget Submission, highlighting the crucial role that sugar manufacturing can play in addressing key national challenges. The submission underscores the need for more proactive industry policy in response to emerging global uncertainty as international trade rules come under pressure, including recent decisio...
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India’s resumption of sugar exports risks global market disruption | 21 January 2025

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The Indian Government’s announcement to export up to one-million tonnes of raw sugar, ignoring previous WTO rulings against it, has raised alarms about potential market disruptions causing a decline in sugar prices globally. India’s history of employing trade-distorting subsidies has faced wide-spread criticism and led to multiple legal challenges. The WTO ruled in 2021 that India breached i...
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Raw sugar export values improve through Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement | 15 January 2025

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The Australian Sugar Milling Council (ASMC) has welcomed today’s report of increases in the value of raw sugar exports to the United Kingdom resulting from the easing of tariffs under the Australia UK Free Trade Agreement which came into force in May 2023. The UK had been a significant buyer of Australian raw sugar in the past and the opportunity to again sell sugar to refiners in the ...
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