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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
8v F'b. hti’r r1. Harrison
Washington—The harsh actions of Fidel Castro in expropriating business properties of citizens of the United States, and his continuing efforts to incite hatred of thF country among his people, have focused attention on the preferential position Cuba long has enjoyed in our sugar market.
We have given Cuban sugar a tariff concession since 1903. Additionally, since the Depression years, we have guaranteed Cuba approximately one-third of our sugar business. On top of these favorable arrangements, we pay between 2 and 3 cents a pound more than the world market price for every pound of sugar we import from Cuba. The extra cost of this artificial price structure is borne, of course, by the consumers of sugar in the United States.the housewife, the canner, the candymaker.
It has been estimated that
51.8%