Another brilliant idea from the Trump administration

[CallumWK]

Trump insists that companies in the US now use real cane sugar in their products instead of fructose. While at the same time slapping up to 50% tariffs on the countries that the US imports cane sugar from.

 

The world's biggest sugarcane producers are Brazil and India, followed by China, Thailand

 

 

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cokes-shift-cane-sugar-expensive-191618706.html

 

The Corn Refiners Association said the complete elimination of high fructose corn syrup from the U.S. food and beverage supply would cut corn prices by up to 34 cents a bushel, resulting in a loss of $5.1 billion in farm revenue.

 

Trump's ongoing trade wars, however, would make it difficult to cover the deficit, sugar analyst Michael McDougall said.

"It will most likely come from Brazil," he said, referring to the world's top cane sugar producer, "but Trump just hit Brazil with a 50% import tariff."

 

Coke's shift to cane sugar would be expensive, hurt US farmers