Dear Mr. Under Secretary: Thank you for the time you and your staff gave to the Sweetener Users Association recently. We appreciated your concern for current sugar markets and would like to take this opportunity to provide an overview and additional detail on the serious problems currently affecting the U.S. sugar market. The Problem: Among…
Dear Ms. Gannon: These comments respond to your memorandum of December 8, 2021, with respect to the December calculation of the Export Limit under Section V.B of the Agreement Suspending the Countervailing Duty Investigation on Sugar from Mexico, as amended. The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) comprises companies that use sugar in food and beverage manufacturing.…
Dear Madame Ambassador: On behalf of the Sweetener Users Association (SUA), I respectfully request that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative move expeditiously to reallocate the fiscal year (FY) 2022 raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ) to put additional supplies into the U.S. market, which remains unduly elevated at historically high prices that are not…
Dear Mr. Secretary: On behalf of the Sweetener Users Association (SUA), I write to respectfully but urgently request that you take action to increase domestic sugar supplies, which remain inadequate in a market characterized by unreasonably high prices, despite some recent policy actions by the Department of Agriculture. While welcome, these actions fell short of…
Dear Acting Under Secretary Hafemeister and Deputy Under Secretary Montaño Greene: At this writing, two major sugar refineries in Louisiana are shut down as a result of Hurricane Ida. According to Sosland Publishing, these two refineries account for approximately 15 percent of the U.S. sugar supply. With domestic raw sugar prices at multi-year highs, it…