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Wouldn't it be just ordinary beetroot sugar? Why cane?
by KptMarchewa 5y ago
Wouldn't it be just ordinary beetroot sugar? Why cane?
- eru 5y agoI assume you mean the sugar beet? Cane sugar is cheaper than beet sugar. Alas, the sugar beet industry is also just another creature of tariffs and subsidies. See eg https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-us-spends-4-billion-a-year-subsidizing-stalinist-style-domestic-sugar-production-2018-06-25 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-us-spends-4-billion-a-... for the US. The situation in Europe was similar when I last looked, but that was at least a decade ago.
- occamrazor 5y agoAFAIK sugar in Europe is mostly refined beet sugar, while refined ir brown cane sugar costs much more.
- eru 5y agoYes, and as far as I know that's down to tariffs and subsidies in the EU. See https://www.researchgate.net/figure/White-Sugar-Prices-Euro-t-in-the-EU-and-on-the-World-Market_fig2_23504863 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/White-Sugar-Prices-Euro-... to see that sugar is much more expensive inside the EU than on the world market. And https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-sugar-prices-graphic-idUSKCN1RK0LF https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-sugar-prices-graphic-i... and https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/food-farming-fisheries/farming/documents/sugar-market-situation_en.pdf https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/food-farming-f... https://www.ragus.co.uk/tariffs-on-sugars-explained/ https://www.ragus.co.uk/tariffs-on-sugars-explained/ also seemed interesting. They say: > The basic tariff for importing direct consumption sugar into the EU is €419 per tonne. So, every tonne of sugar imported from a non-EU country costs an extra €419. Raw sugar imported into the EU is to be further refined into white sugar attracts a tariff of €339 per tonne.