Froman Signals Willingness To Make Concessions On Sugar In TPP

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman last week signaled that the Obama administration is willing to give countries participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) additional access to the U.S. sugar market as long as this new access does not undermine the U.S. sugar program. “We're talking to all the parties and sugar is obviously an area of great sensitivity to our market here,” he said at a July 1 event in Washington, when asked whether the U.S. was willing to provide...