Cheap Mexican Sugar Imports Hurt Florida and Louisiana

by Bill Friday, Aug. 18, 2017 at 5:41 PM

Mexican corporations are now exporting 4 billion US dollars worth of cooking and table sugar that previously came from southern Louisiana as well as an area near Lake Okeechobee near Miami metro.

This is grueling work and is not something you see in People magazine. The effects are a bit like a economic earthquake on rural folks, their jobs and their pocketbooks.

The Wall Street Journal had a article about this. We are looking for allies in other countries.

Original: Cheap Mexican Sugar Imports Hurt Florida and Louisiana