Soft Brown & Icing Sugar

Refinery soft brown sugar and icing (powdered) sugar with starch or anti-caking agent

Soft brown sugar and icing sugar are both refinery products made from purified sugar, which separates them from natural browns such as demerara and muscovado. The Codex Standard for Sugars (CXS 212-1999) defines soft brown sugar as fine grain purified moist sugar, light to dark brown in colour, with sucrose plus invert sugar of not less than 88.0%; its annex adds invert sugar of 12.0% maximum, sulphated ash of 3.5% maximum and loss on drying of 4.5% maximum, and sulphur dioxide is capped at 20 mg/kg. The brown colour comes from cane molasses on the crystal. US CBP ruling NY N260105 (23 December 2014) classified a brown sugar of refined cane sugar mixed with 3% molasses, at 99.5° polarity, under 1701.99, so a molasses-coated soft brown normally stays in the refined sugar subheading; 1701.91 covers sugar containing added flavouring or colouring matter. Buy soft brown where you want a moist, uniform brown sugar for biscuits, sauces, glazes and baked beans rather than the texture of a natural brown.

Icing sugar, also sold as powdered or confectioners' sugar, is finely pulverised white sugar. Codex allows it with or without an anti-caking agent: tribasic calcium phosphate, magnesium carbonate, amorphous silicon dioxide, calcium silicate, magnesium trisilicate, sodium aluminosilicate or calcium aluminosilicate up to 1.5% singly or combined where no starch is present, or up to 5% starch where no anti-caking agent is used, and the presence and maximum amount of starch must be declared on the label. The annex sets colour at 60 ICUMSA units maximum, conductivity ash and invert sugar at 0.04% maximum, and loss on drying at 0.1% maximum except where starch has been added. Both products are made where white sugar is refined, and UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations for 1701.99 are led by Brazil, India, France, Thailand and Germany, with Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Egypt and Pakistan behind; that subheading is dominated by bulk white sugar and does not isolate these products. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers soft brown and icing sugar against a certificate of analysis for sucrose plus invert, moisture, colour, ash, particle size and starch or anti-caking content, with halal and kosher certificates where required, on FOB, CFR and CIF terms. Send the type, colour or mesh, starch or anti-caking preference, packing, monthly volume and discharge port.

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Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.