If we were to get rid of High Fructose Corn Syrup maybe the sugar market would stabilize.
I detest HFCS, I gain weight almost immediately when I consume it, and have lost 30 lbs by refusing to ingest anything that contains it.
——Toomey, who hails from the state that is home to The Hershey Company, a chocolate manufacturer, ——
Hershey moved manufacturing to Mexico
“HERSHEY, Pa. (PAI) – The next time you buy a package of Hershey’s candy kisses, take a good look at where they’re made before you put your money down.
Chances are, the answer is Mexico, not Hershey, Pennsylvania.
That’s because the iconic candy company closed its historic Hershey’s East plant in its namesake Pennsylvania town, idling some 600 Bakery Workers (BCTGM) members. There’s still another Hershey’s plant there, BCTGM researcher Matthew Clark, who tracks the candy company, told Press Associates.”
“In another blow to working families in the United States and Canada, the Hershey Company has announced that it will be closing multiple plants, cutting its workforce by 11.5 percent and moving jobs to a new plant in Monterey, Mexico.
This decision is yet another byproduct of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which, from its inception, has done more to erode the U.S. economy than perhaps any single piece of legislation in U.S. history.”
So many candy makers including Mars and Life Savers, have fled to Canada and Brazil to avoid the sugar tariff. The tariff helps only the sugar growers in this country only.
If this deal with Mexico begins to get rid of the tariff, then all the better.
If you try some European chocolate (Ritter Sport, for example), you'll discover that Hershey doesn't really produce "chocolate"...
Does the deal end Federal subsidies for Big Sugar? Does it encourage competition?
US protectionism of its sugar industry is a long-standing issue.
Have we forgotten what happened in Iowa with Ethanol ? Cruz’s forthright position on crop subsidies in the heart of the cornbelt carried him. But he dropped it as an issue when continued his campaign.
Hershey produces brown colored wax with some sugar in it.
IIRC, one of the features of the sugar agreement was to allow raw sugar imports from Mexico to continue relatively unimpeded, but to increase the U.S. share of the sugar processing market. I can’t remember if that was accomplished through higher tariffs on processed sugar or some other mechanism.
The main problem as I understood it from Secretary Ross, was that Mexico had to some extent created a vertical monopoly on the sugar supply by madking it difficult for American processers to buy raw sugar from Mexico for processing, forcing American companies to buy the end product from them, and cutting out American sugar processing plants from access.
Toomey, Hershey makes candy in Mexico...more than in Hershey, PA.
If some liberal politician wants to tax sugar and sugar products for the health purposes that would probably be just fine.
Where was this POS when Hersey moved its operations to Mexico?
Toomey better remember - Trump carried PA.
Another idiot Republican. What a surprise - NOT.
sugar and similar sweeteners are a large part of the problem in so many diseases and health issues.
It would help me stay off sugar if the price went up more for things containing it.
I avoid HFCorn syrup and Agave syrup and the like already since they are addictive and sickening to the body worse than even regular sugar is.
Why are people wanting better health care, yet wanting sugar and such health harming things to be cheap?