Archives for August 9, 2010

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Sweetener users welcome early sugar quota announcement

10-Aug-2010

By Caroline Scott-Thomas

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has set sugar import tariff-rate quotas for the 2011 fiscal year – including extra specialty sugar “to accommodate a rapidly expanding organic food sector”, USDA said.

Cocoa goes lower as signs supply pressure may ease

10-Aug-2010

By Jane Byrne

Cocoa fell to a three month low in London on signs that supplies in the world’s biggest producer countries would be boosted by the better crop husbandry initiated over the past three years.