Canada's sugar production in 1997/98 is forecast at 115,000 tons, a 21 percent drop from last year's output. This drop in production is due mostly to decreased acreage devoted to sugar and lower yields in Alberta, one of the major sugar beet producingprovinces. Canadian raw sugar imports are forecast to increase 4 percent in 1997/98, to 1.15 million tons. However, refined sugar imports are forecast to continue to decrease 3 percent. On November 6, 1995, Canada initiated an anti-dumping action on imports of U.S. refined sugar. This has severely restricted U.S. exports. According to official Canadian trade data, imports of U.S. refined sugar fell to 28,640 tons in MY 1995/96, down sharply from the previous 3 year average of about 113,000 tons. The sharp decline of sugar imports from the United States enabled Canadian sugar refiners to increase their imports of raw sugar to capture an increased share of the domestic consumption of refined sugar.
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