EU sugar quota supports ‘quasi monopoly’
date:Jul 31, 2012
oduction. The European Commission is debating calls to extend the system past 2015, which would reverse previous plans to end it in 2015.

Artificially limits production

Todays current quota regime artificially limits production of isoglucose (cereal-based sugar) to a tiny fraction (4%) of the overall EU sugar and isoglucose consumption market,an AAF spokeswoman told FoodNavigator.

With a 96% guaranteed market share, the sugar industry benefits from a quasi-monopoly situation, to the detriment
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