{"id":42996,"date":"2020-12-08T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=42996"},"modified":"2020-12-08T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:30:26","slug":"what-congress-can-learn-from-vietnam-on-sugar-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/what-congress-can-learn-from-vietnam-on-sugar-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Congress Can Learn from Vietnam on Sugar Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth) – <\/em>Members of Congress hoping scuttle the U.S. sugar program of targeted tariffs and import quotas on international competitors that subsidize their sugar industries should take a look at what\u2019s going on in Vietnam right now.<\/p>\n

According to a report published by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) last week\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter many years of maintaining a protection policy, Vietnam began to implement its commitments under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) from the beginning of the year, by not limiting the sugar imported from ASEAN countries and tariffs being cut to zero percent.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Exactly what Big Candy\u2019s lobbyists in DC are hoping to achieve under a new Biden administration.\u00a0 But the results aren\u2019t exactly sweet…<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the removal of tariff quotas, the total amount of sugarcane imported into Vietnam has increased rapidly, reaching approximately 1.3 million tonnes in the first 10 months of 2020. In addition, the price of imported sugar is also very low, causing many difficulties for sugar enterprises as well as farmers.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFaced with cheap imported sugar, Vietnam\u2019s domestic sugar price has fallen to a very low level, leading to low sugarcane prices.\u00a0 This, the conference was told, was one of the reasons sugarcane farmers have fallen into debt. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe country now has 29 sugar plants in 2019-20 crop season, 11 less than the previous season. In the 2020-21, it is forecast to be a difficult year for the local sugar industry, especially in the complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNguyen Van Loc, secretary general of the Vietnam Sugar and Sugarcane Association (VSSA) said they have sufficient databases available to identify imported sugar originating from Thailand as dumped and subsidised for dumping in foreign markets. In addition, it also has clear evidence that dumped imported sugar causes significant damages to the domestic industry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Eliminating the U.S. sugar program would open up the spigot of cheap, government-subsidized imported sugar from nations that \u201ccheat\u201d and would result in unfair competition for American sugar farmers and producers.<\/p>\n

Big Candy wants to change U.S. trade policies from \u201cAmerica First\u201d under President Trump to \u201cAmerica Last\u201d under a President Biden.\u00a0 Congress shouldn\u2019t play along.<\/p>\n

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach and publisher of Nevada News & Views.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth) – Members of Congress hoping scuttle the U.S. sugar program of targeted tariffs and import quotas on international competitors that subsidize their sugar industries should take a look at what\u2019s going on in Vietnam right now. According to a report published by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) last week\u2026 \u201cAfter many years of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43001,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42996\/revisions\/43001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}