|
Press Releases
|
|
May 22, 2013 |
|
WASHINGTON—The American Sugar Alliance issued the following statement about today’s bipartisan vote in the United States Senate to reject a Farm Bill amendment offered by Sens. Patrick Toomey (R-PA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to gut America’s sugar policy.
|
|
Read more... [ASA Statement on Senate Sugar Policy Vote]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
May 22, 2013 |
|
WASHINGTON—As the U.S. Senate prepares to debate an anti-sugar amendment, the American Sugar Alliance released today a new three-minute video designed to remind lawmakers of the importance of the vote.
In the video, ASA described its willingness to eliminate U.S. sugar policy once foreign subsidies are addressed so a free market can take hold, but expressed caution in unilaterally disarming and becoming dependent on subsidized foreign suppliers.
|
|
Read more... [ASA Releases New Sugar Policy Video, Touts ‘Zero-for-Zero’ Strategy as Senate Vote Approaches]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
May 21, 2013 |
|
WASHINGTON—Every Capitol Hill office today received a personalized replica of a 1940s-era sugar rationing coupon(front, back), compliments of the American Sugar Alliance (ASA). The delivery, which comes in the middle of Farm Bill deliberations, is intended to remind lawmakers about the consequences of again becoming dependent on foreign sugar supplies.
|
|
Read more... [Sugar Farmers Remind Lawmakers of WWII Rationing]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
May 13, 2013 |
|
U.S. Sugar Jobs Will Be Lost If Policy Is Weakened
WASHINGTON—Confectioners and other producers of sugar-containing products (SCP) are adding more jobs, growing revenues faster and achieving higher profitability than other food processing segments, according to a new report released today that examines the economic effects of U.S. sugar policy.
|
|
Read more... [UMD Professor: Candy Industry Thriving Under Current Sugar Policy]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
March 19, 2013 |
|
WASHINGTON—In testimony delivered to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) today, U.S. sugar producers encouraged the agency to publicly note the positive effect U.S. sugar policy has on the economy.
|
|
Read more... [Trade Panel Told of Sugar Policy Benefits]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
March 13, 2013 |
|
WASHINGTON—In response to today’s Wall Street Journal article about possible U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) actions to cope with record sugar surpluses, the American Sugar Alliance (ASA) released the following statement and background information.
|
|
Read more... [ASA Statement on Wall Street Journal Article]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
November 09, 2012 |
|
WASHINGTON—The sugar surpluses that are overhanging the U.S. market, and sending sugar prices plunging, continue to rapidly climb, according to data released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
|
|
Read more... [Sugar Surpluses Reach Decade High]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
October 25, 2012 |
|
WASHINGTON—If consumers are spooked by candy prices this Halloween, it’s for good reason. Shoppers are paying seven percent more for chocolate and hard candy than they were just two years ago, according to the American Sugar Alliance, which noted that the cost of the sugar in those products has fallen by 35 percent over the same period.
|
|
Read more... [Sugar Farmers Call On Confectioners to Lower Halloween Candy Prices]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
September 20, 2012 |
|
WASHINGTON—The American Sugar Alliance (ASA) continues to put Big Candy’s profit margins under the microscope, today unveiling a new advertising campaign that compares confectioners’ earnings to that of casinos, major oil companies, defense contractors, health care plans, and automakers – with big candy coming out on top every time.
|
|
Read more... [New Ad Campaign Highlights Hefty Profit Margins of Candy Manufacturers]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
September 11, 2012 |
|
WASHINGTON—Job loss, higher consumer prices, increased taxpayer cost, and widespread sugar shortages followed a 2006 sugar policy overhaul in Europe. Now, a new advertisement from the American Sugar Alliance warns the U.S. Congress, “Don’t repeat Europe’s mistakes” during the 2012 Farm Bill.
|
|
Read more... [Lessons from EU Sugar Reform Focus of New Ad]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
August 07, 2012 |
|
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho—The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmers Union aren’t the only ones making the current no-cost sugar policy a top Farm Bill priority. The American Sugar Alliance announced today that leading banks are also lending a hand during the debate.
|
|
Read more... [Banks Back No-Cost Sugar Policy]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
August 07, 2012 |
|
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho—Even though Australia entered into a 2005 trade agreement with the United States that excluded sugar, Australia has lobbied to renegotiate its U.S. sugar market access as part of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The United States is not negotiating tariffs with countries with which it has an FTA that is still in the process of being implemented, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Sharon Bomer said yesterday at the 29th International Sweetener Symposium.
|
|
Read more... [No Additional Sugar Access for Australia in TPP]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
August 05, 2012 |
|
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho—Food manufacturers have long used Farm Bills to maximize their profits, and this year’s debate over no-cost sugar policy is no different, Jack Roney, the American Sugar Alliance’s director of economics and policy analysis, explained today at the 29th International Sweetener Symposium.
|
|
Read more... [Food Manufacturers Use Farm Bills to Boost Profit Margins]
|
|
Press Releases
|
|
July 10, 2012 |
|
WASHINGTON—By a lopsided vote of 36 to 10, members of the House Agriculture Committee today rejected an amendment offered by Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to undermine U.S. sugar policy. It was the fourth anti-sugar amendment defeated in Congress over the past month.
|
|
Read more... [House Agriculture Committee Rejects Anti-Sugar Amendment]
|
|