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South Africa Set to Lift Sugar-Benchmark Price to Shield Growers

South Africa will raise the benchmark price that’s used to calculate duties on sugar imports, a move long-sought by domestic producers like Associated British Foods Plc’s local unit in an industry that’s been battered by cheap foreign competition, according to people familiar with the matter.

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