Lawmakers Push Vilsack To Expand Imports Under Raw Cane Sugar TRQ

The Agriculture Department should move quickly to raise the tariff rate quota for raw sugar to ensure a healthy supply for U.S. cane refiners, 45 members of Congress said in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack late last week. The May 6 letter asks Vilsack to “immediately use your authority to make adequate sugar supplies available in the United States at reasonable prices. Because of the federal sugar program and marketplace factors, both supplies and prices are distorted, to...