Board Meeting – Conference Call Info – July 2022
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Board Meeting – Conference Call Info – June 2022
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Board Meeting – Conference Call Info – May 2022
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SUA Letter to USDA Secretary Vilsack & USTR Tai (4-13-2022)
Dear Mr. Secretary and Madam Ambassador: We are writing to you jointly because both the Department of Agriculture and the Office of U.S. Trade Representative have important responsibilities for supplying the U.S. sugar market with adequate supplies at reasonable prices. USDA establishes and, when necessary, increases sugar tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), while USTR allocates TRQs among…
SUA Letter to Surface Transportation Board Chairman Oberman (4-13-2022)
Dear Chairman Oberman: The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) requests your urgent attention to recent rail issues undermining efforts to continue providing food and beverage products to U.S. consumers in a cost-efficient and timely manner. While there has been a significant amount of media attention given to these issues, we believe that it is useful to…
Board Meeting – Conference Call Info – April 2022
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SUA Letter to USDA Under Secretary Robert Bonnie (3-22-2022)
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,…
Imperial Sugar Letter to USDA Under Secretary Robert Bonnie (3-18-2022)
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…
Board Meeting – Conference Call Info – March 2022
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SUA Letter to USDA Under Secretary Wilkes (3-4-2022)
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…