The Economic Effects of Significant U.S. Import Restraints: Seventh Update Print

The American Sugar Alliance has participated in each of the USITC updates of the Import Restraints series. We have consistently argued that the ITC’s work on the effect of lifting sugar import tariffs is fundamentally flawed. As we have noted before, the ITC underestimates the number of jobs in the U.S. sugar producing industry and the potential harm to this industry and the U.S. economy. Furthermore, ITC has overestimated the job creation and help to the U.S. economy were sugar import restraints to be lifted.

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The Economic Effects of Significant U.S. Import Restraints, 7th Update
 

Symposium

Audio & Video

  • Sugarbeet Grower Alan Welp Tells the Tale of Two Intertwined Industries
    Western Sugar, a company now owned by farmers, closed its Goodland, Kansas sugarbeet factory in 1985. Sugar prices were low, the cost of doing business was climbing, and tough decisions were made that hurt workers and farmers. Today, thanks to no-cost sugar policy, things have turned around, and business is now booming for confectionery manufacturers.  Sugarbeet grower and Western Sugar Cooperative member Alan Welp discusses.