[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 117 (Wednesday, September 27, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S9379]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      THE PREVENTION OF CIRCUMVENTION OF SUGAR TARIFF RATE QUOTAS

  Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I rise in support as a cosponsor of S. 
3116. The purpose of this legislation is to prevent molasses stuffed 
with sugar from being allowed into this country.
  As others have stated, the molasses in question is stuffed with South 
American sugar in Canada, and then transported into the United States. 
The sugar is then spun out of this concoction and sold in this country 
while the molasses is sent right back across the border to be stuffed 
with more sugar--and the smuggling cycle starts over again.
  This practice is a blatant circumvention of our tariff quota. The 
sole purpose of this process is to smuggle excess sugar into the United 
States, and I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, which 
will put an end to this loophole.

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