Sweetener Users Urge Commerce to Renegotiate and Improve the Market-Distorting U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements

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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

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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…