date:Aug 02, 2013
val of about 300,000 tonnes of imported supply at a cost of $43 million.
The latest tender was for raw cane sugar only because raw cane posed the greatest risk for forfeitures at this time, the U.S.D.A. said. The department said it would continue to monitor the sugar market and would take action as necessary to reduce the cost of the sugar program, which is expected to increase in 2013 due to record crops in North America and world prices that no longer support U.S. prices at the sugar program