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Indian Subcontinent Regional Analysis

Higher Duties on Sugar and Chickpea Imports Have Immediate Effect To keep a check on prices, the government of India (GOI) has raised the duty on sugar from 50 percent to 100 percent. The increase was a demand from the sugar industry as sugar prices were below the cost of production. Both carryover stocks of about 4 MMT and last year’s imports had a bearing on the low prices. The new duty, which covers all categories of sugar (raw, refined or white), has had an immediate effect as it seems to have helped revive the sugar prices in the spot exchange. India's sugar production for 2017/18 is projected at 26.1 MMT with consumption estimated at 25 MMT. Apart from the duty, GOI has also imposed stock limits on sugar mills. They will hav...

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From WPI Consulting

Communicating importance of value-added products

Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.

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