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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11297

18 April 2015
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) acp
Sugar suppliers alarmed at price fall threatening their economies

Brussels 17/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - Sugar supplying countries from the ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) Group are seriously concerned by the sharp fall in sugar prices which has come about much earlier than forecast, and they therefore rang the alarm bell in Brussels last week. They see the fall in prices as the direct consequence of the imminent abolition (in 2017) of sugar quotas - an abolition they vehemently opposed. Futhermore, they draw European attention to the fact that this...

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