The tariffs are a job-killer. American candymakers are up against foreign competitors who get their sugar at half the US price, which is why Kraft moved most candy production to Canada. As for the Cuba issue, sugar is a fungible commodity just like oil; lots of our imported sugar comes from friendly Caribbean countries.
The solution is not to lower the tariffs on sugar but to raise them on everything else. That’s why we have so much unemployed. We lowered the tarriffs from their historical norms of about 15%, to 5% in 1980 and now down to 1%.
We are leaving all of our jobs wide open to worldwide competition at $1/day wages.
Raise the tariffs and put American’s back to work.