American Sugar Alliance Challenges Campaign to 'Gut' U.S. Sugar Policy
Claims that the U.S. sugar market is closed to foreign producers are among the major fallacies of a "recent lobbying campaign to gut U.S. sugar policy and outsource U.S. sugar production to heavily subsidized foreign industries," said newly elected American…
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Sugar Alliance (ASA) Chairman Luther Markwart in a press release (here). The U.S. is one of the world's biggest sugar importers and 41 countries have access, he said. Increased sugar market access is one of the contentious issues within Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations (see 14100601). Australia in particular continues to press for more access to the U.S. market, experts say (see 1508030024). Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Sharon Bomer Lauritsen hit back at concerns over U.S. sugar concessions in remarks at the International Sweetener Symposium in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico on Aug. 3. “U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and everybody below them are committed to not doing anything in TPP that will undermine the U.S. sugar program,” she said, according to an ASA news release (here).