A new agreement between the United States and Mexico will be a sweet one for a small handful of American sugar producers – but it will leave a sour taste in the mouth of U.S. packaged food makers, soda producers, restaurants, confectioners, and ultimately consumers. … How big a dent will this put in the…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the fiscal year 2018 tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for raw cane and refined sugars. USDA is establishing the FY 2018 TRQ for raw cane sugar at 1,231,497 short tons raw value (STRV) (1,117,195 MTRV*), the minimum to which the United States is committed under the World Trade Organization…
Washington, DC (June 27, 2017) – Negotiations to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) should include market-opening provisions on sugar, testified the Sweetener Users Association (SUA) and the National Confectioners Association (NCA) during a hearing today held by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Representatives from both associations detailed the need for…
The Sweeteners Users Association (SUA) commends the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for soliciting comments and testimony from the various sectors of the economy on the negotiating objectives for modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico. We welcome the opportunity to testify today on the views of SUA…
The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the draft memoranda on price suppression and the statutory analysis of the proposed amendment to the antidumping (AD) agreement on the investigation of sugar from Mexico. SUA’s members are food and beverage companies that use sugar and other caloric sweeteners in manufacturing their products,…
Businesses in the American and Mexican food and beverage industry are finding it difficult to swallow the new agreement for trading sugar between the two countries. The deal seems to be palatable for one sector: producers of alternative sweeteners, including at least one company in Arizona. … For packaged food makers and soda companies, overall…
Washington, DC (June 21, 2017) – In comments filed today in response to the Commerce Department’s request for comments on amendments to the U.S.-Mexico sugar suspension agreements, America’s sugar-using companies warned the amended agreements will put American jobs at food companies, large and small, at risk and burden U.S. consumers. The Sweetener Users Association (SUA)…
SUA’s members are food and beverage companies that use sugar and other caloric sweeteners in manufacturing their products, as well as trade associations representing these companies. Food companies that use significant amount of sugar in their operations employ 600,000 Americans directly, and account for many more jobs when economic multiplier effects are taken into account.…
“The food and beverage manufacturers would like changes in the sugar support program that make it less restrictive [for them],” said economist Tom Earley of the consulting firm Agralytica. “There was a provision added to the 2008 and 2014 Farm Bills that limits the Secretary of Agriculture’s ability to adjust a number of imports until…
The June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reduced projected U.S. sugar supplies by 430,000 short tons, raw value (STRV) to 13.606 million STRV for 2017/18. Reduced supplies are due to a 527,000-STRV reduction in projected imports—all of which is due to fewer imports from Mexico. The reduction of imports is partially offset by…