Issue Summary:  When free trade in sweeteners began between the United States and Mexico in 2008, many predicted a train wreck: U.S. corn sweetener would displace sugar in the Mexican market; the displaced Mexican sugar, much of which is produced by government-owned mills, would be sent north over-supplying the U.S. market; the U.S. would...

Americans who sweeten their coffee with sugar pay more for that sweet taste than their Canadian counterparts, one lawmaker recently complained at a Congressional hearing where he advocated tearing down the no-cost U.S. sugar policy and leaving the country dependent on foreign suppliers.

It made for a nice soundbite, but it turns out to be patently...

Capitol Hill has been blanketed by propaganda in recent weeks from a fancy grasstops coalition comprised of the same-old-same-old opponents of sugar policy.  After years of lopsided legislative defeats, the Sweetener Users Association (SUA) and National Confectioners Association (NCA) appear to have opted for a rebranding and renaming effort.

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WASHINGTON—In response to the Senate Agriculture Committee’s approval today of the 2012 Farm Bill, the American Sugar Alliance released the following statement: