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.
Colombia: A New Ethanol Producer on the Rise? (January 2009) examines Colombia's sugarcane-based ethanol industry. After operating for only 3 years, the industry is the second most developed in the Western Hemisphere. Colombia's sugarcane-based ethanol production is increasing; proposed expansion projects have the potential to more than triple daily production from 277,000 gallons in 2007 to almost 1 million gallons in 2010.
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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