Domestic sugar under pressure on home turf

Friday, Feb 17, 2023

Domestic sugar producers have been facing mounting pressure in competition with imported sugar in recent years. 

VSSA warns of Thai sugar smuggled into Viet Nam

Tuesday, Apr 12, 2022

The Vietnam Sugar and Sugarcane Association (VSSA) has reported that the volume of sugar exported to Viet Nam from Laos has increased sixty-fold since the country imposed an anti-dumping tax on Thai sugar last year.

Vietnamese sugar failing to compete on home ground

Friday, Jan 21, 2022

Viet Nam has lost over 120,000 hectares of sugarcane 2016-21, a staggering 45 per cent decrease. Meanwhile, productivity has gone down from 64.8 to 61.5 tonnes per hectare during the same period, according to the Vietnam Sugar and Sugarcane Association (VASA).

Seminar discusses ways to combat sugar smuggling

Thursday, Oct 31, 2019

Reducing smuggling of sugar into Viet Nam requires strengthening of preventive measures and co-ordination among relevant agencies, further lowering of sugar production costs and requiring sugar to have clear origin details among other things.

Rising treat for sugar producers after ATIGA

Friday, Aug 16, 2019

Viet Nam’s sugar industry is expected to face a great deal of difficulties as the country will tariffs on imported sugar from ASEAN under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) in 2020.

CBS to be listed on UPCoM

Wednesday, Jun 14, 2017

The Cao Bang Sugar JSC (CBS) is set to have its shares listed on Ha Noi Stock Exchange’s (HNX) Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) on June 20, 2017 with 2.52 million common stocks under the stock code CBS at VND10,000...

VN sugar production down 13%

Tuesday, Jan 03, 2017

Sugar output in the 2015-16 crop was 1.23 million tonnes, a year-on-year of 12.7 percent, said Pham Quoc Doanh, Chairman of the Vietnam Sugarcane and Sugar Association, at a seminar in HCM City last week of sugar producers, distributors and...

VN sugar production down 13%

Friday, Dec 30, 2016

Sugar producers, distributors and consumers discussed production and consumption in 2015-16 and forecasts for the next season at a seminar in HCM City yesterday (Thursday).

Eleven win first-ever sugar bids

Thursday, Sep 08, 2016

At the Ministry of Industry and Trade''s first-ever auction on sugar import quotas yesterday, eleven firms won bids.

Ministry sets trial bidding for sugar imports

Monday, Jul 04, 2016

The Ministry of Industry and Trade will establish a council to conduct pilot bidding on the import of 85,000 tonnes of sugar under a tariff rate quota (TRQ) this year.

Sugar company plans foreign listing

Saturday, Sep 20, 2014

The shares of sugar company Bourbon Tay Ninh (SBT) would be listed on a foreign stock exchange after it merges with the Gia Lai Sugarcane Thermoelectricity (SEC) firm.

Sugar industry needs overhaul

Saturday, Jul 26, 2014

Revamping the process from plantation to production to consumption were critical for the sugar industry to overcome the prices that had fallen in three consecutive seasons.

Sugar export halt causes worry

Saturday, Feb 08, 2014

The Viet Nam Sugar and Sugarcane Association (VSSA) announced concern over sugar stocks following the Ministry of Industry and Trade''s (MoIT''s) order to temporarily cease refined extra (RE) sugar exports.