: The wages of sugar farmers in the EU are three times above the world average …This publication looks at the importance of the EU sugar industry in the global sugar market. It analyses how sugar … sugar support policies have had in making this industry one of the most heavily subsidised, protected and distorted …

Union (EU) on the U.S. sugar industry. A global sugar policy simulation model was used for this analysis. The study results … indicate that the U.S. sugar industry may be able to survive if both the United States and the EU liberalize their sugar trade …. However, if only the United States eliminates its sugar programs, all U.S. sugar-producing regions would be threatened …