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Sugar: Costa Rica Is The Dog In the Manger

The country won't cede its sugar quota to Nicaragua and Honduras, and it opposes to Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama conceding theirs.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

For Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador the Association Agreement with the European Union has not yet entered into force, so they are prevented from offering their sugar in an auction where 35 buyers bid to bring it to market in the old continent. Honduras and Nicaragua can do so, but their quotas are not enough to meet European demand.

But while Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama have made their quotas available to Honduras and Nicaragua, Costa Rica is being like the fabled dog in the manger: it is refusing to do the same and is even against other countries taking this action.

Laprensa.com.ni reports: "The intransigence of Costa Rica is an impediment for the region to sell 60.000 tons of sugar to the European Union (EU) on Thursday. "

Source: laprensa.com.ni

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42,000 Tons of Sugar Sold to EU

September 2013

Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala managed to place the product in Europe at $480 per metric ton, $120 above the price on the international market.

The auction was held under the framework of the Association Agreement between Central America and Europe. Although it was possible to place the sugar at a good price, producers had wanted to sell it for $500 per ton, said Mario Amador, general manager of the National Committee of Sugar Producers (CNPA).

If You Can't Sell Your Sugar, Let Me Sell Mine

August 2013

Nicaragua and Honduras want to regionalize the EU quota, to be able to offer 53,000 tons of sugar.

Producers want the export quotas that the sugar growers in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala were not able to meet, as in those countries the Association Agreement is not yet in force, said Mario Amador Rivas, general manager of the National Committee of Sugar Producers (CNPA).

El Salvador: Losses From Sugar Exports

July 2013

The sector, which was ready to export 10,000 tonnes of sugar to the European Union, must wait two more months to do so.

Non-acceptance by dairy farmers in El Salvador and Costa Rica of the geographical indicators for Italian cheeses has caused a delay of at least 60 days of the entry into force of the Association Agreement with the EU.

Nicaragua Sugar for Europe

June 2013

The Nicaraguan sugar industry expects that the entry into force of the Association Agreement will allow it export to the EU about 25 thousand tons of raw sugar, from the 60,000 quota for the entire region.

For the moment the quota allocated to country is 21,600 tons per year, with the possibility of growing 550 tons per year, but the sugar industry expects that with the advantage of being one of the first countries to ratify the agreement it will be allowed to increase its quota for the first year of the Association Agreement (AA).