U.S. producer, Mexican group trade barbs over sugar suspension agreements

The Mexican Sugar Chamber, representing interests of Mexican sugar exporters, and Imperial Sugar Company -- a U.S. sugar producer and refiner -- this week exchanged fire in separate letters to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker over the functioning and renegotiation of the sugar suspension agreements between the U.S. and Mexico. Imperial delivered its letter to Pritzker on Dec. 5, broadly charging that Mexican sugar exporters were violating the two 2014 deals to suspend antidumping and countervailing duty orders against Mexican sugar...