Surging imports threaten local sugar producers’ survival – SA Canegrowers

Industry organisation SA Canegrowers is urgently calling on Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau to intervene and finalise the update to the sugar import tariff mechanism to reflect current local sugar market realities. This call comes amid South Africa’s sugar industry reaching a decisive stage, with new data revealing that sugar imports in the first five months of this year nearly doubled what they were in the same period last year, displacing locally produced sugar from shelves while food and beverage producers buy increasing quantities of imported sugar.

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