China: Sugar Annual
China’s sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2018/19 is forecast to rise for the third straight year, primarily due to expanded sugar beet area. Imports are also forecast to fall again, as import safeguard measures continue to constrain imports from large supplying countries. Since the safeguard measures went into effect, China’s import patterns have dramatically shifted. While before the majority of imports were from Brazil, now China is being supplied by smaller amounts of sugar from a wide variety of relatively minor suppliers.
