Why Americans Pay Triple the World Price for Sugar

Prominent libertarian journalist James Bovard explains the bitter truth about sugar policy and NAFTA:

"Mexican and U.S. government officials strongly disagree over the details of how many benefits were promised to Mexican sugar growers. The years-long controversy recently spurred the Mexican government to cancel all sugar export permits.

The sugar squabble is typical of NAFTA's convoluted rules and helps explain why the final deal was more than 1700 pages long."