71. The high currency rate given will provide additional revenue for the cane growers without the need to raise domestic sugar prices, although millers will get no extra benefits. 72. They benefited from high sugar prices and steep tariffs on imported sugar. 73. Until now, the Agriculture Department has managed to keep domestic sugar prices three times higher than the world price simply by regulating supplies. 74. For some months now, they have been expecting a collapse of sugar prices in the face of such large quantities of sugar around the world. 75. He added that the US quota would give exporters rates that were higher than world sugar prices. 76. India has banned the re-export of sugar imported by private traders in an attempt to keep the domestic sugar price under control, a newspaper reported Saturday. 77. In the meanwhile, sugar prices kept hardening and various government departments kept passing the buck. 78. A huge sugar crop, notably from Brazil, sent sugar prices lower this week, continuing the fall that was set in motion last week. 79. A spectacular crash in sugar prices has been predicted by experts for the past six months, but the white sweetener has clung obstinately to the heights. 80. A wave of speculative buying lifted sugar prices to their highest level seen for two months. |