How US Sugar Policies Just Helped America Lose 600 Jobs

Bryan Riley
August 18, 2015

Boxes of Mondelez International's Oreo Cookies in multiple flavors on a supermarket shelf. (Photo: RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom)

Bryan Riley

The manufacturer of Oreo cookies recently announced plans to move production of Oreos from Chicago to Mexico, resulting in a loss of 600 U.S. jobs.

This should be a wake-up call to defenders of the U.S. sugar program and other job-destroying trade barriers.

The leading ingredient in Oreos is sugar, and U.S. trade barriers currently require Americans to pay twice the average world prices for sugar.

Sugar-using industries now have a big incentive to relocate from the United States to countries where access to their primary ingredient is not restricted.

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