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Update on beverage & junk food taxes around the world

By |March 17, 2023|Categories: Market Trends, Sugar, Sweeteners|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The new ultra-conservative Israeli administration immediately canceled a soft drink tax (and a tax on disposable plasticware) without any public consultation and was criticized [...]

Sugar & sweetened beverage tax updates: Latin America

By |November 10, 2022|Categories: Market Trends, Sugar, Sweeteners|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

As lifestyles and diets evolved, especially in developing nations, death rates due to noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as diabetes and heart disease have continued [...]

Mexico’s HFCS imports down as shutdown impact lingers

By |October 27, 2021|Categories: Corn & Soy Complex, Shipping, Sugar|Tags: , , , , , |

In early 2020, before the pandemic upended things, Mexico seemed to be on track to import usual volumes of high fructose corn syrup, at [...]

Updates on beverage & sugar taxes in Latin America & the Caribbean

By |March 7, 2019|Categories: Market Trends, Sugar, Sweeteners|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Sweetened beverage sales in Jamaica, one study suggested, fell by more than 4 percent as a result of a 10 percent tax on sugar-sweetened [...]

Updates on sugar & beverage taxes in North America

By |March 1, 2019|Categories: Market Trends, Sugar, Sweeteners|Tags: , , , , , |

In the U.S., Connecticut’s governor is backing a proposed sweetener beverage tax of 1.5 cents per ounce—part of a series of taxes on e-cigarettes [...]