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Imports from India ease sugar prices

Sohel Parvez
Increased imports from India reduced sugar prices at the wholesale level, traders said yesterday.
Sugar traded below Tk 62-63 a kg, down from Tk 63-64 at the end of the previous week as supply rose due to imports, according to wholesalers.
"Overall supply is good enough to cool down the prices,” said Abul Hashem, vice-president of Bangladesh Sugar Merchants Association, based in Moulvibazar, a major wholesale market in Dhaka for sugar and cooking oil.
Wholesale prices of the sweetener fell Tk 1 a kg in the last three-four days, he said.
At city markets, retail prices however remained unchanged at Tk 66-68 a kg yesterday from a week ago, according to Trading Corporation of Bangladesh.
The decline in wholesale prices discouraged some distributors to buy
sugar from the private refiners that increased mill gate prices by Tk 4 to Tk 64 a kg, claiming a rise in import costs.
Hashem said some distributors are less interested to buy sugar at hiked mill gate rates as wholesale prices fell below the millgate rate due to imports from India.
Some 7,500 tonnes of sugar entered Bangladesh from India through Benapole Land Customs Station since September 14, said its Assistant Commissioner Md Mushfiqur Rahman.
The price quoted by some importers was $790 a tonne, he said. It means that import cost of sugar stood at 79 cents or Tk 59.44 a kg.
Hashem said 10,000-12,000 tonnes of sugar are awaiting shipment from India.
A steady fall in the prices of sugar on the international market added further concerns, said another wholesaler Mohammad Ali Bhutto of Shahnewaz
Enterprise at Moulvibazar.
Over the past one month, sugar prices fell as high prices resulted in demand erosion. An speculation of increased output in the world's second biggest producer India and signs of increased output in Brazil, world's largest producer and exporter.
On September 16, ICE October raw sugar futures tumbled 1.98 cents, or 6.7 percent, to finish at 27.52 cents each pound or $606 a tonne (2204 pound = One tonne).
Raw sugar for October delivery closed at 28.16 cents a pound or ($620 a tonne) at the beginning of August.
An addition of around $110 as freight and other costs with mid September price, the landing price of a kilogram of raw sugar stands at Tk 53.87 a kg at Chittagong Port.
Based on August 1 prices of raw sugar on the international market, landing price stands at Tk54.93.