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Raw cane sugar, refined sugar, sugar syrups, specialty sugars and sugar-containing products enter the United States under a variety of tariff-rate quotas (TRQs). A tariff-rate quota provides for a low tariff on a certain quantity (the quota amount), ... Fact Sheet: Background on all FAS sugar import activities...
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www.fas.usda.gov/itp/imports/ussugar.asp
www.fas.usda.gov/itp/imports/ussugar.asp
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The Reagan administration responded to sugar-import cutbacks by creating a new foreign-aid program — the Quota Offset Program — to give free food to countries hurt by reductions. In 1986, the United States. dumped almost $200 million of free food on Caribbean nations and the Philippines.
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www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp
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Using Consumer and Producer Surplus to Calculate the Cost of the Sugar Import Quota System ... From our description of the US sugar market, we learned that the sugar import quota system operated to raise the price of sugar in the US to be about two times higher than the world price. US sugar producers gain from this...
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www.wsu.edu/~hallagan/EconS327/weeks/week5/Sugar/sugarq...
www.wsu.edu/~hallagan/EconS327/weeks/week5/Sugar/sugarquota.html
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The Wall Street Journal writes that how President Obama resolves the dispute between food companies and sugar producers over sugar import quotas will send a message about his view of protectionist policies amidst a recession. ... Each year, the amount of foreign sugar that manufacturers may use is limited to protect U.S.
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online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529702044099045743502...
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409904574350261109973986.html
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Dear Mr. Secretary: The organizations and companies below urge you to increase the sugar import quota immediately. Your experts forecast unprecedented shortages without prompt action. According to USDA's WorldAgricu!tura!
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online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Letter_to_Sec...
online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Letter_to_Secretary_VilsackAug509.pdf
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Interest rates established by the CCC were set at one percent higher than in the past. Finally, the import quota system remained the same, while marketing controls on domestic sugar were eliminated.
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GENEVA, JUNE 12 (BY CHAKRAVARTHI RAGHAVAN)— The sugar import restrictions and the quota regime for imports, maintained by the United States since 1982, has been held by a three-member GATT panel to be illegal in terms of U.S. obligations in GATT.
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www.sunsonline.org/trade/areas/commodit/06130089.htm
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The fact is that capping the amount of sugar Americans are allowed to import is unambiguously pro (sugar) producer and unambiguously anti consumer (as well as anti producers-who-use-sugar like Hershey's or Coca-Cola).
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www.humblelibertarian.com/2009/09/sugar-shortage-abolis...
www.humblelibertarian.com/2009/09/sugar-shortage-abolishing-sugar-import.html
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WASHINGTON - Aug 13/03 - SNS -- The United States has set the Tariff-Rate Quota (TRQ) for cane sugar at 1,117,195 metric tons (MT) raw value (1,231,497 STRV) for the 2004 fiscal year, which starts October 1.
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