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It's a lot more expensive than it could be, actually. The United States has a lot of tariffs and import quotas on sugar, as do most other sugar-producing nations. These raise the prices dramatically.

Sugar is far-cheaper now than it used to be before the discovery of the New World, because cane sugar is far-easier to grow, refine and process than beet sugar. It is also much cheaper to grow than it is to pay a beekeeper to harvest honey. It is cheap because of modern agricultural methods that make growing it easier. It is cheap because of modern production methods that make refining it cheap. It's cheap because of modern transportation networks, packaging technology and the invention of the supermarket as a distribution center.

Mostly, it is cheap because sugar is part of a mature market. There is a lot of demand for sugar, and there are a lot of people out there supplying it.

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