Sugar slides as India’s duty-free 1 million tons import move cools demand expectations
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Sugar futures weakened as India's policy measures (1m tons duty-free raw sugar imports and permission to redirect refined sugar to the domestic market) helped cool local prices, reducing expectations for incremental import demand. The shift implies near-term relief in domestic supply can occur without immediate new cargoes. Additional pressure comes from Brazil: dry weather, a higher sugar mix, and softer crude that may tilt cane allocation toward sugar over ethanol.
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India’s government said it will allow 1 million tons of duty-free sugar imports and let refiners sell some processed sugar domestically instead of exporting it, tempering expectations that the country will need to buy as much from abroad. New York raw sugar futures slid as much as 3% to 17.13 cents a pound in intraday trading on Tuesday. London white sugar futures fell as much as 3.9% over the same period.
