SUGAR POLICY REFORM again tops the ...

SUGAR POLICY REFORM again tops the National Confectioners Association list of legislative very warm topics, as revealed at the association's State Of The Industry discourse (see page 38). And although the policy continues to be a thorn in the side of U confectioners, it is growing in importance, level for those who have chosen to take production to Canada and Mexico.

A congressional bill drafted through Sen. John Breaux (D-LA) would allow the Secretary of Agriculture to make submissive imported food products containing sugar to a tariff as high as 40 percent if they are supposeed to be ...