date:Dec 20, 2018
the huge ownership stakes that American interests held in that nations sugar fields.
Anyone else hoping to export sugar to the U.S. would have to pay punitive tariffs.
These restraints struck many as absurd. Harold Ickes, Franklin Roosevelts secretary of the Interior, blasted the legislation as a giveaway to the domestic sugar producers, who could not otherwise compete.
Reviewing the past two decades, Ickes observed: The domestic industry has continued to thrive on public subsidies and has e