Czapp Explains: The Colombian Sugar Industry

• Importers of carbon-intensive materials to the EU will pay for emissions.
• The EU will assess the materials’ carbon content.
• Importers will need to buy sufficient CBAM certificates.

Starch is composed of chains of glucose molecules. Some of these chains are straight (amylose), which make up 20–30% of the starch molecule, and some are branched (amylopectin), which make up 70%–80% of the starch molecule.

Corporate finance is essential for the day to day running of businesses. Corporate finance refers to how a company allocates resources and how it funds activities. There are several long term or short term corporate finance strategies that can be used by companies to maximise their resources and generate growth. These include performing investment analyses, debt restructuring, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures.

Welcome to the third and final instalment of Czapp’s course on the futures markets.

In this final part of this series, we will look into the futures contracts used to trade sugar globally.