EU sugar imports fall

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According to data from the European Commission, the average price of white sugar in the EU was 534 euros/tonne in July 2025, unchanged from the previous month. The European Union cannot publish the processing price of white sugar by member state for data protection reasons, so it calculates and publishes three regional average prices from the data reported by member states. In July, the average price of Region 1 (Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Slovakia) was 533 euros/tonne, down almost 1 percent compared to the previous month. The average price of the major producing countries in Region 2 (France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium) was 526 euros/tonne, unchanged over the observed period. Region 3, which includes the southern countries (Bulgaria, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Romania), reached the highest average price, 591 euros/tonne, down about 5 percent from the previous month.

Within the EU imports, sugar imports under the duty-free EPA/EBA (Economic Partnership Agreements/”Everything but Arms!”) agreements amounted to 141 thousand tons as of September 22, a 61 percent decrease compared to a year earlier. Central America used 26 percent of the preferential tariff quota of 204 thousand tons for sugar provided by the European Union for 2025 as of September 19. According to preliminary data from the European Commission, the EU’s sugar exports in the 2024/2025 marketing year were 1,555 thousand tons as of September 18, 3 percent less than a year earlier.

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