• Strong nominations this week with 460kmt of raws add to CS line up;
  • Total nominations for January now stands at 900kmt;
  • In NNE, 70kmt of whites were nominated;

Brazil Monthly Exports

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  • There was an increase in offtake this week, with 460kmt of raws added to the CS lineup;
  • Total January nominations now stand at 900kmt;
  • With 2 weeks to go, we believe that exports in January will fail to meet estimates;
  • As a reminder, estimate of exports reflects the high availability of sugar in CS, and not necessarily a strong demand expected going forward;
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  • In NNE, this week 70kmt of refined sugar were nominated for bulk shipments – total refined January line up stands at 87kmt;
  • Total raws nominations remains unchanged at 170kmt;

Destinations

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  • Out of the new nominations this week, 85kmt for Iraq – the first ones of 2020;
  • For Algeria, 172kmt nominated – with 36kmt to be shipped out in February;
  • And last, as main destination this week, 125kmt nominated to Bangladesh – which already has 301kmt nominated in Q1;
  • Unfortunately, the refined nominations in NNE had no destination disclosed so far – it is possible it might be heading to the US , something that could be a first in 15 years;

Summary Table

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Ana Zancaner

Ana graduated from Insper University Sao Paulo in 2013, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She joined CZ as an intern in 2013 and is now our senior analyst in our Sao Paulo office. At CZ she is responsible mainly for analysis of the Brazilian sugar and ethanol sector but supporting other consulting requests as well.

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