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Leaving aside Castro s obvious dalliance with the Kremlin, it does seem to make sense that the United States re-exaipine the policy under which poc nation is subsidized to the disadvantage of other nations more friendly to us than Cuba, and at a substantial cost to the American housewife and industrial consumers of sugar.
Cuba has made firm commitments to the Iron Curtain bloc to ship the communists sugar at an average price approximately two cents less a pound than it gets for its sugar in the United States. In addition to this bonus price, Cuba enjoys a guaranteed share of the Unites! States market for sugar and lower tariff than other nations, such as Mexico and the Philippines, which want to ship us more sugar but are prohibited by law from cutting into Castro’s share.
Approximately 53 percent of our sugar needs is supplied by the domestic beet and cane production of
58.7%