Sugar industry urges Commerce to adopt new suspension amendments

The U.S. sugar industry is urging the Commerce Department to quickly adopt new proposed sugar suspension agreement amendments with Mexico, which are identical to the 2017 amendments that the Court of International Trade declared void last month. The plaintiffs in the case maintain that the amendments were bad for the domestic industry. In October the CIT ordered Commerce to vacate the 2017 amendments to the 2014 suspension agreements -- one suspending a countervailing investigation and one an antidumping investigation --...