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Jack Kingston: “Is it not true that we import 100 percent or 99 percent of our tea, which is true, we do not grow tea domestically? Many…”

On the recordApril 23, 1997
Is it not true that we import 100 percent or 99 percent of our tea, which is true, we do not grow tea domestically? Many people have said we have to preserve the American supplier because we cannot be dependent. But I think the reality is the dependency is overseas to those markets to make sure that America continues to buy their sugar. So to say that there is going to be a sugar shortage because of the change in the sugar domestic policy is ridiculous because we never had a tea shortage, or at least none in recent memory that I can recall.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of domestic sugar policy and its relation to tea imports.

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