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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Subject: Re: What is "castor" sugar?
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 20:23:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 20:23:28 1986
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References: <269@utastro.UUCP> <11401@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Summary: 

In article <11401@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> spp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Stephen P Pope) writes:
>
>In fact, as I understand it, that raw sugar is illegal in the
>U.S.  In England you can buy demerara sugar (wonderful
>stuff) but you can't bring it into the country (raw
>possibly infested agricultural product).
>
>Anybody have a better knowledge of this law?  
>As explained to me, all brown sugars sold in the U.S. are
>made from refined white sugar with molasses etc. added.

Right fact, wrong reason.  There was a huge furor in the Wall Street Journal
many months ago about this subject.  Seems that sugar in the U.S. is about
10+ times as expensive as sugar on the open world market.  So, to protect
the guys who sell sugar here, raw sugar was disallowed.  The thing that
caused such an uproar in the Journal revolved around the fact that it was
actually cheaper for companies to buy foreign-made confections and *get
the sugar out of them*; they made a lot of money that way.  The sugar
companies here complained to the White House, so Reagan made a bunch of
additions to the list of 'banned' items.  There were a couple of places in
New York and Boston who had generations-old family businesses based primarily
on some of the foreign candies and confections that were barred from import --
they were out of business overnight.  The Journal people apparently weren't
too happy with Ronny that day, because the story made front-page.

Oh, please don't write/post and ask me when this occured -- with my wonderful
sense of time I can't even pinpoint the month, much less the exact day.  Sorry.
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