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mainland States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Of the rest, Cuba supplies about onethird; the Philippines sends 11 per cent, and all other sugar-producing nations divide up 3 percent.
Cuba pays % cent a pound tariff on sugar shipped into the United States. Other foreign shippers, such as Mexico, pay 5/8 of a cent a pound. The Philippines, which enjoyed free entry when a possession of the United States, is under a special gradually-increasing tariff which still is well below that paid by Cuba, but as has been noted, the Philippines are permitted a shipping quota only one-third as large as Cuba’s.
In' addition to the tarfff protection, domestic sugar producers receive a government payment for complying with certain minimum wage, child labor and production and marketing regulations. These payments are financed by a tax of Vfc cent per pound, Which is passed on to the consumer.
It can be seen, therefore, that the United States has a tightlyregulated sugar market, intended primarily to protect the domestic beet and cane growers and, secondarily, to insure that Cuba will supply the lion’s share of our foreign sugar purchases.at prices higher than Cuba can get elsewhere in the world.
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