Sugar & Trade Print

As the world’s second largest sugar importer, America already has one of the most open markets in the world. But every additional pound of unneeded, subsidized sugar that America is forced to import through trade agreements is one less pound that efficient American farmers can grow.  Reforming the distorted world sugar market, leveling the playing field, and addressing foreign subsidies is the best way to keep 142,000 sugar jobs in America—where they belong.

  • 70% of Americans prefer buying homegrown sugar, even if foreign sugar is cheaper.
  • One-sided trade deals force America to import sugar from 41 countries, regardless of our needs.
  • The world sugar market is a thinly traded, heavily subsidized dump market and is the world’s most volatile commodity market.
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  • 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.