POLITICO Morning Trade: Sweetener Users Protest Mexico Tariffs

SWEETENER USERS PROTEST MEXICO TARIFFS: U.S. food and beverage manufacturers who rely on Mexico for nearly one-third of U.S. sugar imports also are among the many business groups protesting Trump’s new tariff plan. “American food and beverage companies will be made even less competitive — yet again — by misguided government policy,” the Sweetener Users Association said in a statement Monday that also criticized existing U.S. sugar policy. “The end result will be to encourage more imports of sugar-containing products from foreign countries.”