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Bitter harvest


Despite all the free-trade talk over the decades from both Republican and Democratic administrations, this country has some bitter hypocrisies hidden in its import-export cupboard. One of them is sugar.

Sugar in the United States costs between two and three times the world price, because U.S. agricultural policy severely restricts imports. It’s a politically driven policy â€â€