Commerce Decision Memo for Preliminary Results of Administrative Review Countervailing Duty Investigation on Sugar from Mexico
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Letter from Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Pritzker Re: U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements
It appears efforts are being made to change the most recent Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Suspension Agreement with Mexico to require sugar imported from Mexico to be sold only to refineries that granulate and crystalize sugar. This is problematic because there are sugar refineries in the U.S. that only produce liquid sugar, which is used…
Sweetener Users Urge Commerce to Renegotiate and Improve the Market-Distorting U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements
Washington, DC (September 20, 2016) – In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, the Sweetener Users Association (SUA) detailed how the U.S.-Mexico suspension agreements have distorted the sugar market – a market already negatively impacted by the U.S. sugar program – and urged Commerce to renegotiate the pacts to improve them. The…
SUA Letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Re: U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements
Even before the next farm bill is written, sugar markets have unfortunately been further distorted by the suspension agreements between the United States and Mexico. Although these agreements are preferable in theory to the antidumping and countervailing duties that would otherwise apply to Mexican sugar, the pacts badly need to be renegotiated and changed to…
Agriculture Policy Expert Questions U.S. Sugar Policy, U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements
Washington, DC (August 1, 2016) – Today, Randy Green, an agriculture policy expert and principal at Watson Green LLC, participated in a panel discussion on behalf of the Sweetener Users Association at the 33rd International Sweetener Symposium in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. During the session on “U.S. Sugar Policy: Is the U.S.-Mexican Sweetener Market Rebalancing?,” Green…
Letter from Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Pritzker Re: U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements
I write to express concern that the Administration may be renegotiating its sugar suspension agreements with Mexico without allowing for public comment. Policy with economic implications of this magnitude deserves careful study and an opportunity for input from all affected. Since Implementation in December 2014, the sugar managed trade agreements between the United States and…
SUA Letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Re: Renegotiation of U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements
Since we are hearing reports of a potential renegotiation of the sugar suspension agreements with Mexico, we are submitting the following comments on behalf od the Sweetener Users Association (SUA), a coalition of companies that utilize nutritive sweeteners in their business operations, as well as the trade associations to which they belong. Although portrayed as…
Statement on ITC TPP Report
Washington, DC (May 19, 2016) – Today, the Sweetener Users Association issued the following statement on the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). “We welcome the release of the ITC report on the TPP, as it helps lay the groundwork for congressional consideration and approval of the agreement this year.…