TAPP Signs Onto Letter Supporting Reform of the U.S. Sugar Program

TAPP recently signed onto a letter addressed to leadership in the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture to urge them to reform the U.S. sugar program. TAPP joined a diverse group of organizations to denounce the U.S. sugar program in its current state.

The U.S. sugar program was enacted in 1934 and is an outdated scheme that drives up prices for consumers and small businesses. The scheme uses market allotment, loans, quotas and tariffs to raise sugar prices artificially.

The sugar program costs consumers and small businesses $2.4 - $4 billion each year and leads to the loss of 17,000 to 20,000 jobs annually.

TAPP urges U.S. policymakers to reform the U.S. sugar program and introduced a more up-to-date and less punitive version. 

Read the letter here.