This does not mean that the sugar industry is on our side though.
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In 2007, the sugar industry increased efficiency and diversification efforts, in response to a 17% decline in EU sugar prices.
The sugar industry gets the tariff protection, doubling the price of sugar, which is the only thing that makes HFCS worth manufacturing.
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But the 120, 000 jobs which the sugar industry provides are also crucial.
Will the general consider private investment in the sugar industry?
But the sugar industry argued this change would be a bitter pill for US consumers and would only add to the confusion about a sweetener that has drawn criticism by some health advocates.
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Nevertheless, Mr Jank thinks the world market for Brazilian ethanol will grow and that the sugar industry can triple its electricity co-generation capacity to 15, 000MW (around 27% of Brazil's demand today) from its present acreage of cane.
However, if the subsidies, tariffs and the Cuban trade embargo were not in place, and Americans were able to purchase freely sugar at world prices, would the American sugar industry still be competitive?
Australian beef producers will see the tariffs they face phased out slowly over 18 years - while the sugar cane industry has been left out altogether.
Sugar was the industry hardest hit by the collapse of the Soviet Union, which for years paid prices well above world levels.
Probably not: the price of sugar would drop, America's sugar industry would decline and the pollution of the Everglades would decrease.
During that period the Brazilians invested massively in a sugar-based ethanol industry to the degree that about a third of the fuel they use in their vehicles is domestically grown.
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That's because such tinkering would likely entail more sweeteners for the U.S. sugar industry.
The woman might have been interested in how my industry source, who had called sugar, fat, and salt the three points of the compass, described her entree.
There they were exposed to bacteria which now had the job of breaking the sugar into succinic acid, a colorless, odorless substance that is heavily used in the food industry as a sweetener but can also be used in the production of a wide variety of materials, including medicines, bioplastics and even laundry detergent.
It has an old-established and protected sugar industry which struggles to compete in the world market.
But health advocates have been unimpressed with the food industry's efforts to reduce fat, sugar and salt in foods.
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Given its environmental benefits, sugar-based ethanol has the potential to be a global industry.
It is betting heavily on the industry's new divine ambrosia: a fake sugar that is natural.
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"Advocating discriminatory policies that uniquely focus on sugar-sweetened beverages is the wrong approach, " the industry trade organization said in a statement.
India lifted most controls over the sugar sector, a step that will likely boost investments in the industry but add to the government's food-subsidy cost.
However, most policymakers agree that the industry must move beyond corn ethanol, which is less efficient than the sugar-derived stuff and pushes food prices upwards.
However, industry sources believe exposure the ETN was holding to corn, wheat, soybeans and sugar futures was nearing limits that might attract the attention of regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Once upon a time, the candy industry was pretty straightforward: You made a crunchy, sticky, gooey or creamy sugar-filled product that customers, mainly kids, adored and that put many dentist's children through college.
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