Trump’s cane sugar Coca-Cola push could disrupt U.S. agriculture: trade group

Trump announced on Wednesday his efforts to push Coca -Cola to switch to sugar cane for its products that made the United States, which is an abundant and inexpensive corn syrup currently used in most of its products.

“I spoke to Cocacola about the use of Sugy Sugar Real Cane in coke in the United States, and they agreed to do so,” Trump wrote on social media. “I would like to thank everyone in power in Coca-Cola. This will be a very good step for them-you see it. It’s better!”

In response, Coca -Cola said it would contain “more details about new innovative offers” soon, but it did not confirm the shift to sugar cane of US products. The company made an additional statement on Thursday, defending its use of high fructose corn drink, which said, “It has the same number of calories for each sugar as a continuation and is meticulously met by your body.” Coca -Cola refused to comment more.

But the possibility of a shift in localities left a bad taste in the mouths of the corn industry leaders, such as the Association of Corn Refineries, a commercial group that fears sugar exchanges some farmers in the largest crop in the United States in a non -favorable position.

“Replacing high fructose corn syrup with sugar cane is meaningless. President Trump symbolizes American manufacturing functions, American farmers, and reducing the trade deficit,” John Body, CEO of Corn Refiners said in a statement on Wednesday. “Replacing high fructose corn syrup with sugar cane will cost thousands of American food manufacturing functions, farm income, and increase foreign sugar imports, all without food benefit.”

Al -Alala in Trump’s tariff

The changes in the demand for corn syrup, such as that used in coke, increased demand for cane sugar in Louisiana and Florida, as well as from Central and South America, where the sweetener is widely targeted. Corn farmers – basically in Iowa and Ilinoi – can force the search for work elsewhere luck.

The most obvious solution for corn farmers is the export of their crops. But while the atom exports have recorded record levels this year, Trump’s commercial policy with China has completely prevented the export of corn from the United States to the nation, which was previously a major blessing for the American corn industry.

“The exports were really good, but they would look better if we still provide China very much,” said McFadin.

Other industry experts said these short -term effects are exaggerated. The production of corn syrup in the United States represents 410 million inch of the country of 15.5 billion inch, and is less than 3 % of the total number of industry, according to the data of the Economic Center of Agriculture of the US Department of Agriculture. With the use of Coca-Cola for high fructose corn syrup, which represents a small part of this break, the company that turns into sugar cane will not have a great impact on the industry as a whole, according to Irvin Square, President of Laurence J

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Fear of the growing “Maha” movement

Irwin said that pushing sugar in Trump cane still could have severe consequences for the atomic industry. Change will have a meaningful effect for us food processing giants such as Archer-Daniels-Midland, which produces high fructose corn syrup. The manufacturer’s shares fell 6 % in pre -market trading on Thursday after Trump’s announcement, despite its later recovery.

However, the largest effect of the proposed key is the symbolic effect of the increasing effect of the Minister of Human Health and Safety Robert F. Kennedy Junior, “MAAA ARANAD) campaign. Kennedy has repeatedly targeted high -treated foods, including corn syrup, in favor of alternatives such as cane sugar, although some nutritionists confirm that sugars mainly are chemically identical.

“This is exactly the Mahaa type [agriculture] Irwin said “Fears” luck. “It is clear that there is an increasing reverse reaction from the consumers that the MAA movement seized against food additions, the added chemicals, diabetes, and obesity – all of this together.”

While the main food makers link pressure from the Trump administration by adding more clear packaging signs and pledged to remove dyes and seed oils from their products, there is a real concern about the corn industry that the administration can prohibit directly from corn syrup, which will have a “real effect of price” in the market, according to Irwin.

HHS and the White House did not respond luckRequest to comment.

Trump Agricultural Catch-22

However, the apparently stopping force to pay the Maha to the Trump administration may fulfill the uncomfortable issue of strong pressure barriers from the United States, which puts an inhibitor on the possibility of sugar cane in the United States in the United States

In the seventies of the last century, protected sugar producers in the United States, especially beet sugar, build a tradition in the eighteenth century from a tariff for sugar imports to isolate industry. But with the increase in the cost of beets and cane sugar in the United States and decreased worldwide, American food treatments manufactured corn syrup as a cheap alternative. Corn cultivation is strengthened by support by the United States government, and has continued to run the strong corn in opposing the changes in the American sugar program that limits imports on sugar, while maintaining corn syrup at the end.

Therefore, according to Irwin, the most effective way to eliminate high fructose corn syrup is to weaken the industry by rationalizing the American sugar policy.

He said, “The answer of the economist is: Let’s restore the stadium by eliminating the high -priced approach from locally produced sugar.”

The sugar lobby is not likely to be displaced only – but because the Trump administration depends on its large support for American farmers – it is often returned to American agricultural policies. When corn groups speak against threats to high fructose corn, it puts Trump in hunting 22.

“He will only try to walk in this administration,” said Irwin.