I believe production of Life Savers (those fruit flavored, hard candy rings, remember?) was moved to Canada several years ago because the price of sugar is controlled in the U.S. at an artificially high level.
The land of free market supply and demand, don’t ya know?!
same with dairy. A friend is a dairy farmer and the government PAYS him to dump tons of it so that they can inflate the cost of milk. He hates it but has no choice.