ITC Should Even Sugar Playing Field With Duties on Mexican Imports, Says Senator
The Mexican government’s direct subsidization and investment in the sugar industry has caused a sharp rise in U.S. imports of dumped sugar, while weakening U.S. sugar prices, said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., in a recent letter to U.S. International Trade…
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Commission (ITC) Chairman Irving Williamson. Landrieu said she supports a domestic sugar industry coalition's March 28 request for new antidumping and countervailing duties on sugar from Mexico (see 14033124). “Sugar dumping negatively affects thousands of hard working Louisiana farmers and tens of thousands more across the country,” said Landrieu. “These illegal practices by Mexico inadvertently harm the United States sugar industry and must be stopped.”