{"id":56412,"date":"2017-02-10T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/algerias-sugar-imports-up-in-2016\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T01:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T03:36:17","slug":"algerias-sugar-imports-up-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/algerias-sugar-imports-up-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria\u2019s sugar imports up in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Algeria imported 2.03 million tons of sugar last year, up 5% from 1.93 million tons in 2015. The numbers are from the Algerian Customs&rsquo; National Center for Data Processing and Statistics and were made available by <em>Alg&eacute;rie Presse Service<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Total spending on imports of sugar and its raw materials, including raw beet, sugar cane and lactose syrup, was USD 871.7 million, a 22% increase from USD 714.76 million in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The main driver of the increase was the international sugar price hike. Average spending per ton in Algeria was USD 398, up from USD 358 per ton in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Refined sugar imports averaged at USD 522 per ton last year, up 3.2% from USD 506 per ton in 2015. Brazil is a major supplier of sugar to the North African country.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the foodstuffs consumed in Algeria are imported, with agriculture making up only 13.1% of GDP. The country&rsquo;s economy is primarily driven by oil and gas production. Locally-grown items include wheat, grapes, olives, barley, oats and fruits, in addition to sheep and cattle farming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-191175\">Billal Bensalem\/NurPhoto\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab country bought 2.03 million tons of the commodity from other countries last year. Expenditure on sugar and its raw materials reached USD 871.7 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":191175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness"},"wps_subtitle":"The Arab country bought 2.03 million tons of the commodity from other countries last year. Expenditure on sugar and its raw materials reached USD 871.7 million.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}