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High fructose corn syrup prices: where the official series live
High fructose corn syrup prices live in the USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables, whose world, US and Mexican sugar and corn sweetener price series run since 1980 across 24 free XLSX and CSV files refreshed monthly, with caloric sweetener deliveries back to 1966 and BLS CPI series covering retail beverage inflation.
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Which Yearbook tables hold the corn sweetener numbers?
Four groups do the work. First, the price tables: world reference and US domestic series for sugar and corn sweeteners since 1980. Second, the corn sweetener supply, use and trade table, which balances dextrose, glucose and HFCS production against imports, exports and deliveries. Third, Table 49 - US deliveries of caloric sweeteners for domestic food and beverage use by calendar year since 1966, the standard consumption proxy when nobody publishes beverage-level sweetener offtake. Fourth, the trade-policy block: Tables 57-61 cover WTO raw and refined sugar TRQ allocations since FY1996/FY2006, FTA TRQ entries and imports from Mexico by port since FY2011, with monthly US imports tracked since FY2008.
Monthly detail sits in Table 25 (US estimates since FY2003) and Table 26 (Mexican estimates since FY2011). The quota mechanics behind those flows are explained in our tariff-rate quota entry.
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USDA ERS Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables
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BLS Consumer Price Data Tools (Nonalcoholic Beverages CPI)
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British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA)
UNESDA - Soft Drinks Europe Market Data
FAOSTAT Food and Agriculture Data
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How far back does HFCS price history go?
The ERS price tables reach back to 1980, and its Table 49 caloric sweetener deliveries series starts in 1966 as a consumption proxy. For finished beverages rather than sweeteners, the BLS nonalcoholic-beverages CPI extends to January 1947 - roughly 950 monthly observations per item series, the longest consumer price runs in this slice.
Does any source quote HFCS-42 and HFCS-55 directly?
The British Soft Drinks Association's Commodity Tracker lists HFCS-42 and HFCS-55 quotes alongside raw sugar, white sugar, EU sugar and glucose. ERS publishes corn sweetener price and supply-use tables and documents dry-weight conversion factors of 0.71 for HFCS-42 and 0.77 for HFCS-55, with a short ton defined as 2,000 pounds.