All you are doing with any sugar tariff is benefiting a couple of hundred beet farmers up north and Conagra and Cargil amongst other big agro. Why should American consumers subsidize the massive corn syrup producers and a handful of dumbasses that havent figured out they should be growing canola?
I know of what I speak. Used to sit across the trading desk trading veg oils from a sugar trader. We became drinking buds. I got the skinny on this FRiend. Hell I later worked for a company that was importing raw sugar refilling the bags with flour and taking a duty draw back when it was shipped to Haiti (Owner went to jail and I was not involved).
Also worked as a buyer for a large candy factory. Beet sugar sucks in processed foods (the foaming is terrible even under vacuum cooking and panning it is a nightmare) and corn syrup throws your glycemic index all out of wack. Corn syrup is bad for you. Big agro is bad for you. Inverted syrup fulfills all the purposes of corn syrup and doesn’t mess with your health. Corn syrup is a cruel joke. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_sugar_syrup
“All you are doing with any sugar tariff is benefiting a couple of hundred beet farmers up north and Conagra and Cargil amongst other big agro.”
The sugar tariff obviously should not be higher than necessary.
But if one insists that even a one cent per pound tariff is intolerable, then you are neglecting the impact of federally mandated wage and environmental requirements on US sugar producers.