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Sweet Profit

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

The police are investigating 56,000 tons of illegal sugar in Tanjung Priok. Why are the five trading companies authorized to import sugar denying any knowledge of it?

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THE issue is pure economics: sugar (or any commodity) will go from a lower price market to a more profitable one. If the price of sugar in Thailand is R 2,000 per kilogram, compared to Rp4,100 in Indonesia, and if the cost of transporting from there to here doesn't even reach Rp1,500 per kilogram, cheap sugar from Thailand is bound to flood the local markets.

This is particularly the case given that Indonesia has quietly become the second l

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