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Sugar High – Part II

Last Monday, Gary Blumenthal wrote on the bullish sugar market as global supplies tighten, and demand stays strong. The March Consumer Price Index showed sugar (and substitutes) up 12.7 percent year-over-year. Other sugar containing products, especially when combined with tight supplies of wheat, were up as well. The overall bakery category was up 13.9 percent, cookies were up 16 percent. Those increases compare to overall food inflation of 8.5 percent. The WASDE revised its projection of sugar imports into the U.S. to increase over last month’s forecast. Sugar from FTA countries (CAFTA and the Dominican Republic) – is expected to drop, but world raw sugar imports are up on USTR increasing the raw sugar TRQ allocation. However,...

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