The USDA announced there will be no additional imports of specialty sugars beyond what U.S. international obligations dictate. “Production agriculture has seen devastating impacts from natural disasters, Biden-era policies, and extraordinary increases to the cost of production,” said Stephen Vaden, USDA Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. “Worse, a trade landscape that, over the last four years, favored foreign competitors over America’s farmers, ranchers, and producers, led to what is projected to be the largest agricultural trade deficit on record.” He also said that although sugar policy is uniquely designed to protect sugar farmers from the dumping of heavily subsidized foreign sugar, those farmers are not immune to the same distress facing other agricultural producers. “Over the last 20 years, sugar imports have more than doubled and producers have lost 15 percent of the U.S. sugar market to imports, leading to closures of mills and processors,” Vaden added. “This decision begins righting the ship.”
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