Washington, D.C. (February 28, 2024) – In the final session of the International Sweetener Colloquium, co-hosted by the Sweetener Users Association (SUA) and the International Dairy Foods Association, panelists today discussed practical ways to reform the U.S. sugar program to better balance the interests of its many stakeholders. …
Washington, D.C. (February 27, 2024) – The International Sweetener Colloquium, co-hosted by the Sweetener Users Association (SUA) and the International Dairy Foods Association, concluded its second day today with a discussion of the 2024 farm bill. Experts made forecasts about the key issues in the bill and took a deeper dive into sugar policy reform. …
Washington, D.C. (February 25, 2024) – The International Sweetener Colloquium, co-hosted by the Sweetener Users Association (SUA) and the International Dairy Foods Association, kicked off today with over 600 attendees. This record turnout underscores ongoing concerns over tight sugar supplies, high prices and the urgent need for solutions. …
Washington, D.C. (February 22, 2024) – The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) today released a new issue brief detailing how tight markets and government inaction have led to the need to pay prohibitive tariffs on at least 200,000 short tons or more of sugar imports for five years running to ensure adequate supplies are available for sugar-using food companies. Fortunately, Congress can include simple fixes in the farm bill to address this problem.
Washington, D.C. (December 21, 2023) – The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) today commended Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, for her letter urging Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to swiftly implement Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations for sugar program reform. …
Washington, D.C. (November 30, 2023) – The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) today welcomed the announcement from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) that it will reallocate 223,740 metric tons of the unused fiscal year 2024 raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). …
Washington, D.C. (November 15, 2023) – The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) today released updated numbers on the historically high cost of sugar, driven up by U.S. sugar policy. …
Washington, D.C. (November 1, 2023) – In a new report published yesterday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed the financial burdens imposed by the sugar program on U.S. consumers and the economy. The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) pointed to the findings of “Sugar Program: Alternative Methods for Implementing Import Restrictions Could Increase Effectiveness” as further evidence of the urgent need for U.S. sugar policy reform in the 2023 farm bill. …
Washington, D.C. (August 17, 2023) – The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) today released an issue brief describing how a significant uptick in sugar contract force majeure declarations seriously undermines the reliability of the sugar supply that sugar-using companies need. …
Washington, D.C. (July 20, 2023) — The Sweetener Users Association (SUA) today released an issue brief explaining that, when domestic sugar supplies are short and import quotas need to be increased, the use of an outdated standard for refined sugar results in imported sugar that fails to meet the needs of consumers and sugar-using companies. The brief offers simple solutions U.S. officials can implement to fix this problem. …