{"id":272,"date":"2009-10-26T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2009-10-26T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:40:06","slug":"sugar-prices-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Prices in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The absurdities of the European system of sugar subsidies are highlighted today in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/27\/business\/global\/27sugariht.html\">New York Times article<\/a>. Rampant fraud and corruption plague a byzantine system of rules and regulations created to support a program that primarily benefits large multinational corporations. Because of the subsidies, consumers in the European Union pay an average retail price of $0.63 per pound, while the global average is only about $0.36 per pound.<\/p>\n<p>The historical trend of the European wholesale import price can be studied in further detail in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/\">commodities section<\/a>. Click on the graph below to manipulate and download the data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/?commodity=sugar-european-import-price&amp;months=300\"><img title=\"Click to play with this data at IndexMundi\" alt=\"Sugar, European import price - Monthly Price - Commodity Prices\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/image.aspx?commodity=sugar-european-import-price&amp;months=300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Sugar Prices in Europe' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Sugar Prices in Europe' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Sugar Prices in Europe' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Sugar Prices in Europe' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The absurdities of the European system of sugar subsidies are highlighted today in a New York Times article. Rampant fraud and corruption plague a byzantine system of rules and regulations created to support a program that primarily benefits large multinational corporations. Because of the subsidies, consumers in the European Union pay an average retail price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Sugar Prices in Europe' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Sugar Prices in Europe' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Sugar Prices in Europe' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Sugar Prices in Europe' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/sugar-prices-in-europe\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,27,77,28],"tags":[78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}