Book Description

Overviews the current natural sweetener market in Canada with an investigation of the following: the relative shares of the market supplied by domestic producers and refiners of sugar beets, by domestic refiners of imported raw sugar, by the domestic high fructose corn syrup industry, and by imports of refined sugar; the employment generated in the domestic production of natural sweeteners; the industrial and consumer demand for natural sweeteners; the extent to which industrial users of natural sweetners rely on imports of sugar at world prices in order to maintain their competitiveness against import of products containing sugar; the pricing practices and competitive efficiency of domestic sugar refiners in comparison with their U.S. counterparts; and the reasons for the competitive problems of the sugar beet and high fructose corn syrup industries vis-à-vis imports.