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Rep. Kelly Calls for Opening of US Sugar Market in Trade Negotiations

Press Release

Date: Sept. 30, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Business and Consumers Trade Food Processing and Sales

U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) -- a member of the House Ways and Means Committee -- sent a letter today to Ambassador Michael Froman, the United States Trade Representative, formally requesting that he secures "a significant opening" of access to U.S. sugar markets in ongoing negotiations with member countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The bipartisan letter was co-authored by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and is co-signed by 43 other members of the House of Representatives, including a total of 10 members of the Ways and Means Committee.

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"Current sugar tariffs are hurting American consumers and businesses by keeping our sugar prices unfairly high and our sugar-using industries -- and the countless jobs they support -- at needless risk. Expanding our sugar market for our trading partners will bring sugar prices dramatically down for American families and factories while increasing supplies and boosting competition among American companies."

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