Touche. We are indeed major consumers of that crop. The U.S. government demonizes the producing countries but it wouldn't be such a thriving market without eager consumers. And that seems to be another category in which we lead the world ;-(


>Funny, when I think of American consumers there is only one product that comes to mind...and is not corn ethanol :D
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>I'm not really lobying here for our sugar ethanol producers, rather for Amrican potential sugar cheaper ethanol consumers.....
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>>When I think of Peruvian crops there is only one that comes to mind, and it isn't sugar.
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>>>I'd say that the U.S. is doing more than its share supporting products made in Peru (as one example):
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>>>http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/product/enduse/imports/c3330.html
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>>>That is hardly closing the economy to cheaper foreign goods.
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>>>>If you think that the best think for the american people is that your government closes their economy to cheaper foreign goods , you are in good company along with Castro and Chavez......hey, why not every country closes their borders to any foreign good and tries to be self supplied for any good produced inside their borders? Sure that would make this global economy work better :)