WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) today announced an agreement in principle meant to bring Mexico’s subsidized sugar industry into compliance with America’s trade laws. Phillip Hayes, a spokesman for the American Sugar Alliance, released the following…
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Louisiana congressmen ask Trump to reinstate tariff on Mexican sugar imports
A years-long fight with Mexico over illegal dumping of cheap, subsidized sugar on the U.S. market is emerging as a major issue as the United States looks to tackle a rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement. “What I was hearing on Capitol Hill … is…
Sugar rationing’s 75th anniversary highlight new threat to American farmers
Mrs. J.A. Tiedt sat down at a table across from a high school teacher in Culver, Indiana, 75 years ago this month and became the first person in her town to receive a book of sugar ration stamps. It was May 1942 and World War II was raging across Europe. Sugar was the…
Congress Calls on Trump to Stand Strong Against Subsidized Mexican Sugar
Members of Congress are urging President Trump to enforce laws that would prevent Mexico from dumping highly subsidized sugar onto the U.S. market and injuring U.S. sugar farmers and factories. The letter, sent yesterday by 38 members of Congress, comes as the two…
DOC Announces Action to Stop Mexican Dumping of Subsidized Sugar with Duties, Unless Deal Reached
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) yesterday announced that it would end the anti-dumping and countervailing duty suspension agreements in place with Mexico and impose duties on Mexican sugar beginning June 5, unless the two countries can reach an accord before…
The ‘zero-for-zero’ policy on sugar could be a roadmap forward for the US on trade
Louisiana’s sugarcane farmers are among the most efficient in the world so why do they need trade protection? Because the world sugar market is a dump market. Read this story from The Hill about the bold “zero for zero” trade policy proposal. The…