agricultural · input
Tropical grass crop (Saccharum officinarum); the raw feedstock for ~80% of world sugar output; Brazil, India, and Thailand account for ~55% of global production
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Source countries
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Companies
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Goods affected
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Claims on record
What depends on it
1 essential American goods rely on sugarcane somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Where it comes from
Share of global supply, by country.
| Country | Share of supply |
|---|---|
| BRBrazil | 40% |
| INIndia | 25% |
| CNChina | 7% |
| THThailand | 5% |
| PKPakistan | 4% |
| AUAustralia | 3% |
Who makes it
5 companies produce sugarcane.
World's largest sugarcane processor; a 50-50 JV of Shell (now wholly owned by Cosan) and Cosan; operates 35 sugar-energy mills in Brazil producing ~4 Mt/yr of sugar and 2+ billion liters of ethanol; controls ~1.2M hectares of sugarcane area.
Second-largest sugarcane processor in Brazil by crushing capacity; Louis Dreyfus Company subsidiary; 11 mills across Center-South Brazil; ~65 MT sugarcane crushing capacity. LDC acquired majority control from Votorantim group.
One of Brazil's largest and most efficient sugarcane processors; 4 mills in São Paulo state with total crushing capacity ~24 MT sugarcane/year; publicly listed (B3); split production between sugar and ethanol based on relative prices. São Paulo state accounts for ~55% of Brazilian sugarcane production.
French agricultural cooperative and second-largest sugar group globally; major producer of vital wheat gluten, wheat starch, and ethanol from wheat. Plants in Normandy (Lillebonne) and Belgium. Has a bioplastics partnership with Futerro using wheat proteins.
Largest sugarcane producer in the US; privately held, headquartered in Clewiston near Lake Okeechobee; mills ~4.5 Mt of cane/yr at the Clewiston mill — the largest sugar mill in the US; controls ~200,000 acres of Florida Everglades farmland.
