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Every commodity has specific characteristics setting it apart from all others and influencing the ways in which it is produced, distributed and consumed. Sugar, however, probably has more unique features than most.

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Hagelberg, G.B. (1975). Sugar. In: Payer, C. (eds) Commodity Trade of the Third World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02609-8_5

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