2:00 - 2:30 pm - Reception and Welcome Coffee
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Frank Jenkins President - JSG Commodities
The NAFTA Sugar Complex: Markets in Turmoil
• Current situation;
• Mexican and US: S&D;
• The "New NAFTA": Commercial and Trade realities;
• Outlook: 2016-17 and 2017-18.
3:30 - 4:00 pm - Coffee break
4:00 - 5:30 pm - Julio M. M. Borges - CEO and Partner of JOB Economia
The new Brazilian crop 2016-17
• Sugarcane area. Weather. Sugarcane available for crushing;
• Production mix and S&D - sugar & ethanol;
• External markets: sugar & ethanol exports and imports.
Brazilian competitiveness
* The economic and financial situation of the industry.
• Brazilian global competitiveness in the short run and the exchange rate effect.