ACTIVITY 1

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS QUESTIONS

CORPORACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA MINUTO

DE DIOS
UNIMINUTO
What country is
SUBJECT known as the
ELECTIVA CPC
NRC: 6441 sugar bowl of
TEACHER:
the world?
ERIK FABIAN RICO CASTILLO

PRESENTS:

CAMILO ANDRES SUAREZ FORERO

COLOMBIA – BOGOTÁ D. C
OCTOBER 2020
For Colombia, positioning its more
than 15 tons per hectare per year
has not been an easy path, despite
In the world there is the largest
having a 16% tariff and comparing
with countries like Brazil with 13.6%
sugar producer with more than
and Peru with 0%, they hinder its way 720 million tons generating its
in the market. generating a non-free share with up to 40% of world
competition, however, its production, with competition on
technologies, type of climate and the road with producing powers
investments in science, make such as China and India,
Colombia according to the countries that produce almost 80
association of cane
tons per hectare is Colombia,
growers in Colombia, producing in
Argentina, Australia and the
2016 more than 2.9 million tons of
sugar in a largest producer Brazil
year .