Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian sugar news, Dec 23, 2015

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Prices for food commodities from category “sugar, jam, honey, chocolate and sweets” increased by 0.7% in Russia in November 2015; according to Rosstat.
Penza regional industry has completed sugar beet processing season, according to the regional Ministry of Agriculture. Sugar factories in the region have accepted more than 1.5 million tons of raw materials total and have produced 237 thousand tons of sugar.

 
Production of refined beet sugar has totaled 508 000 tons in the country in November 2015, which is 25.9% less than in 2014, according to State Statistics Service. Ukraine has produced 1 340 000 tons of beet sugar total in January-November 2015 (less by 28.6% compared to 2014).
According to the Federal Customs Service of Belarus the following volumes were traded internationally in 10 months of 2015:
 

Exports	Volume
Raw beet sugar (HS 170112)	5 043 MT
Other sugar (HS 170199)	299 000 MT
Other sugars (HS 1702)	2 102 MT
Molasses (HS 1703)	104 896 MT
Sugar confectionery (HS 1704)	5 095 MT
Water with sugar (HS 2202)	38 371 000 litres
Sugar beet pulp (HS 230320)	31 548 MT
Imports	Volume
Other cane sugar (HS 170114)	166 000  T
Other sugar (HS 170199)	9 804 MT
Other sugars (HS 1702)	10 776 MT
Sugar confectionery (HS 1704)	12 805 MT
Water with sugar (HS 2202)	59 244 000 litres
Sugar beet seeds (HS 120910) a	388 MT

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