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If you're still coming down off a Halloween-induced sugar high and gearing up for your next, we have some bad news for you.

Logistical holdups at ports in Brazil, the world's largest producer of sugar, combined with poor sugar crops in other major sugar-producing nations, is stretching supply of the precious crystals to a worrying degree -- and environmental factors could mean things will get worse before they get better.

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Source Fool.com