Dear Mr. Under Secretary: The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) urges the Department of Agriculture to act promptly to assure adequate supplies at reasonable prices during the balance of the current fiscal year. Because the primary supply need is raw cane sugar and the U.S. cane refining industry has only a fixed amount of production capacity,…
Dear Mr. Under Secretary: Imperial Sugar Company (“ISC”) is one of the cane sugar refiners in the United States that depends on imported raw sugar to sustain its operations. ISC employs approximately 500 direct and contract workers at our facilities in Port Wentworth, Georgia and Ludlow, Kentucky and at our supporting offices. We also support…
Dear Mr. Under Secretary: The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) strongly supports the use of the newly announced “Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities” program for use by any sugar producer or sugar producer organization that has developed an innovative project that reduces greenhouse gases or sequesters carbon. As a trade association representing companies who buy sugar in…