End of sugar quota would make EU unattractive to ACP producers

While African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries will continue to have access to the European market after the end of the sugar quota in 2017, Guyana’s Ambassador to the European Union (EU) PI Gomes says it will “hardly be commercially attractive” and this country could be one of those starved out of the arena.

“What we as exporters are concerned about is the impact of the removal of quotas in 2017 rather than about 2020 that will result on the price of sugar,” he told Stabroek News in an invited comment, while adding that the EU’s decision