This paper analyses the effects of the EU sugar reforms on poor households in
African countries. Our analysis will be based on a modified version of the GTAP
computable general equilibrium (CGE) framework. This is a preliminary analysis of a
broader study which has the intention to analyse the impact of the EU sugar regime reform
in the Sugar Protocol (SP) which by 2008 will become one of the agreements of the
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA). The scope of the study is to evaluate the effects
produced in those countries sugar cane producer signatories of the SP in terms of loss in
export earnings and household incomes in the light also of the Everything but Arms
initiative