Brazil's total sugar exports rose 32 percent to 1.61 million tonnes in December, from 1.22 million tonnes in the same month a year earlier, the Trade Ministry's foreign trade secretariat said on Friday.
December raw sugar exports rose 63 percent to 1.24 million tonnes, from 759,400 tonnes a year earlier. In November Brazil exported 560,300 tonnes of raws.
But white sugar shipments fell almost 9 percent to 420,100 tonnes in December, from 460,300 tonnes exported in the same month in 2002. They were also substantially lower than the 529,900 tonnes exported in November.
In December, the Sao Paulo Cane Agroindustry Union upwardly revised its forecast for center-south sugar exports to 12 million tonnes in 2003/04, from 11.6 million tonnes in October and 11 million tonnes last season.
It put the center-south sugar cane crop at a record 298 million tonnes, up sharply from the previous record of 270.4 million tonnes in 2002/03.
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