date:Feb 22, 2019
er-production. By the 1980s, this surplus sugar could only be removed from the domestic market through egregious levels of export subsidies, notes the report.
Triggered by an international trade dispute in the mid-2000s, sugar policy was overhauled through the liberalization of domestic production, greater market access for imports and a shift from price supports to income payments for farmers. As intended, the EU has since been supplied with more and cheaper sugar, with prices falling to thei