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Sugar is one of the world’s most highly traded commodities, alongside wheat, soybean and palm oil. Richardson, 2015, Sugar, Polity Press. According to a 2005 Report of the European Commission entitled: “The European Sugar Sector: It’s Importance and Its Future”, annually, about 40 million tonnes of sugar was traded internationally, representing 30% of the world’s production. This compares with 15% for cereals.
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Stanberry, D. (2022). The Avalanche of Trade Liberalization Since the 1990s. In: How Trade Liberalization Affects a Sugar Dependent Community in Jamaica. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89359-0_5
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