Dear Under Secretary Bonnie, Acting Under Secretary Hafemeister and Assistant USTR Callahan: On behalf of the Sweetener Users Association (SUA), thank you for your continued management of U.S. sugar policies. Our member companies, who use sugar in their food and beverage manufacturing business, rely on the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of the…
Dear Mr. Deputy Under Secretary: Members of the Sweetener Users Association (SUA) would like to thank you and your colleagues at the Department of Agriculture and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for the steps you have taken this year to make additional supplies of raw sugar available to the U.S. market. Most recently,…
Dear Madame Ambassador: Members of the Sweetener Users Association (SUA) would like to thank you and your colleagues at the Department of Agriculture for the steps you have taken this year to make additional supplies of raw sugar available to the U.S. market. Most recently, USDA extended the period for entry of 2021/22 raw sugar…
Dear Mr. Under Secretary: Members of the Sweetener Users Association (SUA) would like to thank you and your colleagues at the Department of Agriculture and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for the steps you have taken this year to make additional supplies of raw sugar available to the U.S. market. Most recently, USDA…
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…
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,…
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…
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 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 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…