date:Dec 20, 2018
f 2 cents a pound before reselling it to the U.S. at the protected price of 6 cents a pound.
Though the import quota system lapsed in the 1970s when sugar prices soared, Congress resurrected it in 1979, even if it delayed implementation several years. The principal author of the Senate bill, a lawyer for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association, described his inspiration: We just rewrote [the 1934 Sugar Act] and left out the minimum wage provisions.
By the 1980s, however, sugar legislation beca