SUA Letter to Leaders of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee in Support of Governor Sonny Perdue’s Nomination as to Serve as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

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The Sweetener Users Association comprises companies that are directly affected by many policies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including USDA’s administration of the federal sugar program. While we have often been critical of the structure of current sugar policy, we have also worked closely with USDA officials to encourage program administration that is balanced…

Letter from Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Pritzker Re: U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements

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It appears efforts are being made to change the most recent Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Suspension Agreement with Mexico to require sugar imported from Mexico to be sold only to refineries that granulate and crystalize sugar. This is problematic because there are sugar refineries in the U.S. that only produce liquid sugar, which is used…

SUA Letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Re: U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements

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Even before the next farm bill is written, sugar markets have unfortunately been further distorted by the suspension agreements between the United States and Mexico. Although these agreements are preferable in theory to the antidumping and countervailing duties that would otherwise apply to Mexican sugar, the pacts badly need to be renegotiated and changed to…

Letter from Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Pritzker Re: U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements

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I write to express concern that the Administration may be renegotiating its sugar suspension agreements with Mexico without allowing for public comment. Policy with economic implications of this magnitude deserves careful study and an opportunity for input from all affected. Since Implementation in December 2014, the sugar managed trade agreements between the United States and…

SUA Letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Re: Renegotiation of U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements

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Since we are hearing reports of a potential renegotiation of the sugar suspension agreements with Mexico, we are submitting the following comments on behalf od the Sweetener Users Association (SUA), a coalition of companies that utilize nutritive sweeteners in their business operations, as well as the trade associations to which they belong. Although portrayed as…

Bipartisan Letter from 45 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate to Y.s. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Re: Sugar TRQ

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We respectfully request that you immediately use your authority to make adequate sugar available in the United States at reasonable prices. Because of the federal sugar program and marketplace factors, both supplies and prices are distorted, to the detriment of workers, businesses, consumers – and even some segments of the sugar industry.