Act on Price Adjustment of Sugar and Starch(Act No. 109 of 1965). Country/Territory Japan Document type Legislation Date 1965 (2022) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition, Cultivated plants Keyword Agricultural development Sugar Subsidy/incentive Internal trade International trade Food additives Food quality control/food safety Agricultural commodities Sugar cane/sugar beet Vegetables/legumes Geographical area Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract The purpose of this Act is to ensure a stable supply of domestic sugar and domestic potato starch, thereby contributing to the stability of the lives of the citizenry through securing agricultural income pertaining to sweetener resource crops and potatoes for starch, stabilizing the business operation of production of domestic sugar and domestic potato starch, and soundly developing other related industries by providing measures for price adjustment of imported sugar and starch, measures on price adjustment of high-fructose corn syrup and imported sweetened preparation products in relation to sugar, and measures to grant subsidies for sweetener resource crops and domestic sugar, and for potatoes for starch and domestic potato starch. Full text Japanese/English Website www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp References - Legislation Implemented by Regulations for Enforcement of the Act on Price Adjustment of Sugar and Starch (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Ordinance No. 43 of 1960). Legislation | Japan | 1965 (2019) Keyword: Agricultural development, Sugar, Subsidy/incentive, Internal trade, International trade, Food additives, Food quality control/food safety, Agricultural commodities, Sugar cane/sugar beet, Vegetables/legumes Source: FAO, FAOLEX