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WASDE: U.S. Fiscal Year 2016/17 Beet Sugar Production Is Decreased

SUGAR: U.S. fiscal year 2016/17 beet sugar production is decreased 265,000 short tons, raw value (STRV) to 5.106 million. Sucrose recovery from sugarbeet slicing
reported by processors in the Sweetener Market Data (SMD) for the period covering the 6 months between August 2016 and January 2017 of this year’s sugarbeet harvest cycle imply a final crop year recovery projection from slicing at 13.9 percent, much less than the 14.7 percent underlying previous projections based on historical averages. Projected imports of sugar from Mexico for 2016/17 are increased by 189,780 STRV to 1.162 million, and projected tariff-rate quota imports (TRQ) are increased by 44,093 STRV to 1.576 million based on USDA’s increase of the specialty sugar TRQ, announced on February 24. Deliveries for human consumption for 2016/17 are increased by 100,000 STRV to 12.100 million based on strong deliveries in the first 4 months of the fiscal year and a continuation of that growth, but at a reduced rate for the remainder of the year. Ending stocks for 2016/17 are projected residually at 1.677 million STRV, implying a stocks-to-use ratio of 13.6 percent. Included in ending stocks are 12,476 STRV of sugar recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau as imported from Mexico in 2016/17 but which entered under a 2015/16 Mexico export license.
 
For Mexico, exports to the United States for 2016/17 are projected at 994,502 metric tons (MT), based on changes made in the March 2017 WASDE for the United States as per the Countervailing Duty (CVD) Suspension Agreement of December 19, 2014 (“Target Quantity of U.S. Sugar Needs”). The ending stock total for 2016/17 is forecast at 1.278 million MT, an amount projected to meet sugar supply requirements of domestic consumption and exports to the U.S. market for the first three months of the following marketing year. Exports for 2016/17 to non-U.S. destinations are projected residually at 426,354 MT. Total exports are 1.421 million MT, the sum of projected exports to the United States and to other countries.
 

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