Workers and Consumers Get a Raw Deal from Sugar
Posted by Consumers for World Trade Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:30:00 GMT
Ezra FinkinJuly 12, 2007 -- Just this
week the House Agriculture Committee released its Farm Bill outlining new changes
to federal support for farmers. As the bill relates to sugar, it looks like
consumers and workers might get less than a sweet deal.
For years our Sugar Program as it is known channels big subsidies to sugar growers
to reduce their costs and let them grow more sugar. Yet that's not all Big Sugar
gets. The sugar program also severely restricts the amount of foreign supplies
of sugar that is allowed into the US market. These restrictions - a blend of
very high border taxes and quotas - are designed to make sure that US consumers
don't get the benefit of tasting sugar grown in other countries such as Brazil
and Haiti.These trade
restrictions on foreign supplies of sugar have actually been partly to blame
for the elimination of 11,000 sugar refining and candy manufacturing jobs. These
industries have had to close their doors to US operations and open shop overseas
to take advantage of cheaper supplies of sugar abroad. Of course these jobs
wouldn't be lost if Congress eliminated the combination of highly restrictive
quotas and tariffs.
Instead of turning things
around Congress has made this bad system worse. The recently released Farm Bill
proposes to make it that much more difficult for US candy makers and consumers
to get access to foreign supplies of sugar. In the end, it is workers and consumers
that will pay for this kind of protection offered to such a wealthy few.
Click here
to read CWT's letter on the proposed changes to the sugar program.
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