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The sugar tariff benefits you by...

Keeping funds out of the hands of Cuban communists.
Keeping you from having to fight wars funded by those Cuban communists.
Keeping you from having to support even more people in Louisiana, Texas, Florida and Hawaii than you already do.
Keeping Agriculture, once designated as a militarily sensitive industry, in the U.S. and us from being dependent on foreign countries for food.
Keeping you from being fatter than you already are.
Keeping you from developing diabetes even faster than you already are/have.

The sugar tariff is an imperfect tariff, because the products that use sugar are not tariffed as well. Consequently it's put our candy manufacturers at a disadvantage to foreign producers.

Isolated examples like the sugar tariff is not good examples for general import tariffs which benefited our country greatly for 180 years.

NAFTA is undermining the sugar tariff because Mexico can ship sugar in tariff free.

You cannot get your facts to fit your narrative:

1.Brazil: $9.5 billion (35.7% of total sugar exports)
2.Thailand: $2.7 billion (10.3%)
3.France: $1.3 billion (5%)
4.India: $1.1 billion (4.2%)
5.Guatemala: $952.2 million (3.6%)
6.Mexico: $907.3 million (3.4%)
7.Germany: $754.8 million (2.9%)
8.Belgium: $429.2 million (1.6%)
9.Cuba: $427.9 million (1.6%)

So the sugar tariff protects two billionaire Florida families from competition and me from saving my hard earned dollars. Those stinking isolated tariffs. If only they were more broad based then I’d lose even more money to domestic rent seekers.

You remind me of Plato where somewhere in heaven is a perfect tariff and all earthly tariffs are only poor replicas. Stop being so good to me Danny.