Overview
The U.S. sweetener market is the largest and most diverse
in the world. The United States is the largest consumer
of sweeteners, including high fructose corn syrup, and
is one of the largest global sugar importers. The United
States ranks among the top sugar producers, and is one
of the few countries with significant production of both
sugarbeets and sugarcane.
ERS analysts track U.S. and international sugar and sweetener
production, consumption, and trade. They also monitor
and analyze U.S. sweetener policy and events that affect
the domestic, Mexican, and other international sweetener
markets.
Features
Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook (January, May, and September) provide an update of current market and policy developments and their impacts on the sugar and corn sweetener industries.
Global Biofuels Market Boosts Sugar Ethanol Industry in Latin America (May 2008, page 41 of PDF) reports that several countries in Latin America, besides Brazil, have policies and programs to expand production of liquid biofuels from biomass in the coming decades. This article analyzes developments that aim to reduce dependence on imported transportation fuels and to reduce poverty by engaging farmers in growing ethanol-producing crops.
Sugar
Backgrounder (July 2007)
addresses key domestic and international market and policy
developments that have affected the U.S. sugar sector
in recent years. It provides descriptions and analyses
of farm-level production of U.S. sugar crops, cane and
beet sugar processing and refining industries, sugar imports
and exports, and sugar consumption.
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