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'Sugar is sugar is sugar': What Hershey doesn't want you to know about its GMO-free chocolate - Genetic Literacy Project

5/31/2017

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'Sugar is sugar is sugar': What Hershey doesn't want you to know about its GMO-free chocolate
Genetic Literacy Project
[Editor's note: Wanda Patsche and her husband own and operate an independent farm in southern Minnesota, raising corn, soybeans and pigs.] In the past, Hershey has used sugar from both sugar beets and sugar cane. But now the company is not buying ...

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Thanks to Mexican dumping you can say aloha to Hawaiian sugar - Washington Examiner

5/30/2017

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Washington Examiner

Thanks to Mexican dumping, you can say aloha to Hawaiian sugar
Washington Examiner
Beet sugar factories throughout the Midwest and cane facilities in the South are also limping along after losing $4 billion due to Mexico's unlawful acts. The U.S., like most other countries, has laws on the books to keep foreign competitors from ...

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Mexico's Bad Acts Extend Beyond Sugar

5/30/2017

The debate over whether Mexico's subsidized sugar industry will be held accountable for violating U.S. trade laws has been getting a lot of press coverage lately:

U.S. officials have until June 5 to resolve a disagreement with Mexican officials about how to handle Mexico's illegal dumping of cheap, subsidized sugar in the U.S. marketplace."

So far, Mexico has refused to comply [with U.S. trade laws], but the U.S. Commerce Department, which is leading the talks with Mexico, has shown no sign of backing down." -Agri-Pulse, May 17

[Commerce] Secretary Ross earned praise when he staked out a tough position on NAFTA enforcement, saying, ‘We are going to implement stricter enforcement than any recent administration. We will be diligent in pursuing violative imports and in collecting anti-dumping and countervailing duties." -The Hill, May 19

Unfortunately for American workers, Mexico's pattern of unfair trade is not isolated to sugar. In fact, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) is currently enforcing 10 dumping and subsidy cases against Mexico, including:

Circular welded non-alloy steel pipe
Certain magnesia carbon bricks
Seamless refined copper pipe and tube
Large residential clothes washers
Pre-stressed concrete steel rail tiewire
Steel concrete reinforcing bar
Carbon steel wire rod
Pre-stressed concrete steel wire strand
Light-walled rectangular pipe and tube
Heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes

All told, the United States has tried approximately 2,000 unfair trade cases against countries spanning the globe. And in many of these cases, the DOC has stepped in to defend U.S. jobs through duties or negotiated agreements to level the playing field.

America's sugar producers are trying to make NAFTA work by asking for the same treatment afforded to all U.S. industries: Enforcement of U.S. laws to stop the injury being caused by predatory trade practices.
Whether it's concrete, steel or sugar, we can all agree that trade cheats should not be rewarded.

SOURCE: sugaralliance.org

Dangerous invader: Palmer amaranth reaches Upper Midwest - AG Week

5/29/2017

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Dangerous invader: Palmer amaranth reaches Upper Midwest
AG Week
Palmer amaranth, a huge and longstanding concern in the southeastern United States, is spreading into Agweek country. The weed, which already has been found in Minnesota and South ... Though the weed hasn't been discovered in North Dakota, farmers in ...

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New North Yorks sugar beet plant could bring 200 jobs - The Press York

5/25/2017

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New North Yorks sugar beet plant could bring 200 jobs
The Press, York
A NEW sugar beet processing plant could open in North Yorkshire, around a decade after the British Sugar plant in York closed. Early stage planning documents show Al Khaleej International - linked to Al Khaleej Sugar of Dubai - is eyeing a site next to ...

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VIDEO: How Colorado Sugarbeet Farmers are becoming more sustainable

5/25/2017

The Denver Post took an inside look at how Colorado sugarbeet farmers are becoming more sustainable to provide for consumer demand.

New Ads Target Mexico's Unfair Trade Acts When does aloha mean goodbye?

5/24/2017

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Wall Street Journal readers were asked that question in a half-page advertisement from the American Sugar Alliance today.

The answer: After Mexico broke U.S. trade laws and ran Hawaii's century-old sugar industry into the ground.

This print advertisement, urging America to defend its remaining sugar jobs, is just one of many running in Washington, DC, this week as U.S. government officials work to bring Mexico's subsidized sugar industry into compliance with antidumping, countervailing duty laws.

Mexico, which was found guilty in 2015 of violating those laws, is still harming U.S. sugar producers and threatening U.S. jobs by flooding the market with subsidized sugar.

And the message in those ads was blunt.

"Mexico broke U.S. trade law. U.S. sugar workers lost their jobs. Hold Mexico accountable."
If Mexico will not agree to comply by June 5, the U.S. Department of Commerce has promised to impose duties of 80 percent to stop the injury being done by Mexico's unfair trade – as is required by the law.

Source: American Sugar Alliance

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5/24/2017

Illinois would lose if Trump hits Mexican sugar with tariffs - Crain's Chicago Business (blog)

5/24/2017

Sugar imports

Illinois would lose if Trump hits Mexican sugar with tariffs
Crain's Chicago Business (blog)
Illinois' food industry is bracing for fallout from President Donald Trump's latest global trade tiff. Egged on by U.S. sugar interests, the Trump administration is threatening to reinstate punitive tariffs on Mexican sugar imports unless new trading ...

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New North Yorks sugar beet plant could bring 200 jobs - The Press York

5/24/2017

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New North Yorks sugar beet plant could bring 200 jobs
The Press, York
A NEW sugar beet processing plant could open in North Yorkshire, around a decade after the British Sugar plant in York closed. Early stage planning documents show Al Khaleej International - linked to Al Khaleej Sugar of Dubai - is eyeing a site next to ...

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New sugar trading system from November - Bangkok Post

5/23/2017

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New sugar trading system from November
Bangkok Post
The new system is unlikely to be a game changer, as it is designed to secure sugar supply for domestic consumption, but it will create additional risks for Thai sugar millers, according to industry officials. Somsak Jantararoungtong, secretary-general ...

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China doubles its sugar import taxes - The Australian

5/23/2017

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China doubles its sugar import taxes
The Australian
Saying that an investigation had found that imports have seriously damaged China's sugar industry, the Ministry of Commerce said the tax on imports beyond the first 1.95 million tonnes a year would be raised to 95 per cent from the current 50 per cent, ...

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Extra sugar tariff on the way - China Daily

5/22/2017

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Extra sugar tariff on the way
China Daily
... this case in September 2016, after receiving an application from the sugar association of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region for a safeguard measure investigation on behalf of the whole country's sugar mills, sugarcane and sugar beet farmers in July.
China slaps import duties on sugar; experts question impactReuters
China slaps hefty import duties on sugar in victory for domestic industryNormangee Star

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China slaps import duties on sugar; experts question impact - Reuters

5/22/2017

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China slaps import duties on sugar; experts question impact
Reuters
Sugar is one of the few sectors in which China struggles to compete given the higher costs of its smallholder farmers, who produce about 10.5 million tonnes of cane and beet sugar a year. The country imports another 3 million tonnes of the sweetener a ...
China slaps hefty import duties on sugar in victory for domestic industryNormangee Star

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via Sugar Beet News May 21, 2017 at 09:02PM
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Tariff urged on Mexican sugar imports - Daily Comet

5/20/2017

Sugar imports

Tariff urged on Mexican sugar imports
Daily Comet
If the two countries can't iron our their differences, the U.S. will reinstate an 80 percent tariff on Mexican sugar imports, and that could trigger a cycle of trade retaliation, Strain said. The good news is that Strain believes both countries can ...

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There is optimism for settling sugar dispute with US - Mexico News Daily

5/20/2017

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Mexico News Daily

There is optimism for settling sugar dispute with US
Mexico News Daily
A dispute with the United States over sugar poses a threat to the industry in Mexico but Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo believes that negotiations for a ...

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Crookston Chamber Membership Mixer hosted by Tri-Valley Transportation and the RRV Sugarbeet Museum held ... - Crookston Daily Times

5/20/2017

Crookston Daily Times

Crookston Chamber Membership Mixer hosted by Tri-Valley Transportation and the RRV Sugarbeet Museum held ...
Crookston Daily Times
Crookston Chamber Membership Mixer hosted by Tri-Valley Transportation and the RRV Sugarbeet Museum held Thursday. Hide caption. Here, Jo Bittner and Shirley Iverson mingle with others at the event. Jess Bengtson | Crookston Times ...

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Amalgamated Sugar wraps up record-breaking season - Idaho Press-Tribune

5/20/2017

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Idaho Press-Tribune

Amalgamated Sugar wraps up record-breaking season
Idaho Press-Tribune
“The ability to raise a quality sugarbeet crop and the capacity to process that crop requires highly skilled, dedicated people and cutting-edge technology on the farm and in the factories,” John McCreedy, Amalgamated Sugar's president and CEO, said in ...

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There is optimism for settling sugar dispute - Mexico News Daily

5/19/2017

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Mexico News Daily

There is optimism for settling sugar dispute
Mexico News Daily
While the government and the sugar industry agree that U.S. demands are “excessive,” Guajardo indicated that “talks have restarted…[and] we are moving forward in the process and believe that if things continue like this, within two weeks we could ...
Louisiana congressmen ask Trump to reinstate tariff on Mexican sugar importsThe Advocate

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Plans to build massive 'state-of-the-art' sugar beet plant in North Yorkshire - FarmingUK

5/19/2017

Plans to build massive 'state-of-the-art' sugar beet plant in North Yorkshire
FarmingUK
... states: “The proposed development will regenerate the site and provide employment at the plant for between 200 and 300 people and involve a supply chain of circa 3,500 British farmers in the sourcing of sugar beet from a large area of predominantly ...

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