SUA Letter to USDA Under Secretaries Ted McKinney & Bill Northey (RE: Sugar Supply Issues)
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Following a decision by the Court of International Trade, the Department of Commerce is presently circulating to interested parties a set of amendments to the 2014 agreements suspending antidumping and countervailing duty investigations with respect to sugar imported from Mexico. A preliminary review of the draft amendments indicates that they are identical in substance to…
A Return to 2014 Sugar Reference Prices Needed to Support U.S. Food and Beverage Manufacturers Washington, D.C. (November 15, 2019) – The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) today issued the following statement urging the U.S. Department of Commerce to use a recent Court of International Trade decision vacating 2017 U.S.-Mexico sugar amendments as an opportunity to make…
The commodity advisory service Pro Farmer is reporting that the Department of Justice filed an appeal last Friday [November 8] to stay for 90 days the Court of International Trade’s order to vacate the 2017 suspension agreements. A delay would give the Commerce Department more time to negotiate revised amendments with Mexico and keep the…