CASE today announced its inclusion in a free-market coalition in support of President Trump’s goal of global trade that eliminates barriers, tariffs or subsidies. The coalition issued a letter on the eve of Congress taking up a new Farm Bill, where critics seek to undermine America’s long-standing sugar policy that we not be manipulated by heavily subsidized foreign producers that would leave our farmers and domestic sugar industry at a severe disadvantage.

Because of foreign interference, sugar is now the world’s most volatile commodity market. It would be a tremendous mistake for the U.S. to unilaterally disarm against predatory foreign subsidies, leaving consumers and our farmers entirely vulnerable to overseas governments. We ask that the Senate take a stand and reject changes to U.S. sugar policy, and work toward a solution that eliminates subsidies and trade barriers across the agricultural spectrum.